Word: rake
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Fred C. Putnam is equally remarkable. He is almost a rake. He has an ambition to become "the Father of the Races" by having a mistress and a family of children in every land. At the time of the story he has perfected the arrangement in only about 20 nations...
...defendant made sales through the influence of persons prominent in American society, whose names, as a "professional secret," he refuses to disclose and who received substantial rake-offs for their services, this being the money he is charged with diverting to his own ends...
AREN'T WE ALL?Delightful drawing-room comedy offering Cyril Maude wide scope as a charming old titled rake who parks his brand-new sweeties in the British Museum...
...Debt owed by Britain to America has been settled. The British Government has decided not to rake up the ashes of the past and thus prolong a futile discussion. Harvey's remarks will therefore go ignored...
...Women who sew and bake and in the spring hoe and rake, and not afraid the garden to make. Those who are pleased with a good team and lumber wagon to go to church on Sunday, and who will be satisfied with three good meals a day and a warm home and not afraid to call the chickens. Not one hat will threaten one with divorce courts when you don't purchase a new hat every spring and fall...