Word: rigs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first big spring regatta, usually falls before Derby Day at Churchill Downs. It is a festival touched by ceremonious mania, causing juniors to add to the gaiety of fraternity houseparties the absurd and jovial dignity of top-hats, frock-coats and waistcoats with pearl buttons. Seniors rig themselves on Derby Day in the clownish regalia of sailors, goat-bearded farmers, raffish monks or intoxicated nuns. When, four years ago, this mood of conviviality caused an undergraduate to establish a bar in the bottom of a two-story charabanc, efforts were made to modify the diversions of Yale's Derby...
...rumor circulated in New York yesterday of a revolution in Russia is regarded here simply as an attempt to rig the wheat market...
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...Racket: Some particular kinds of fraud and robbery are so termed, when called by their flask titles, and others, Rig; as, the Letter-racket; the Order-racket, the Kid rig, the Cat and Kitten rig; etc., but all these terms depend on the fancy of the speaker. In fact, any game may be termed a rig, racket, suit, slum, etc. by prefixing thereto the particular branch of depredation or fraud in question...
Incidently, this "Kid rig" was a confidence game. Children carrying parcels were accosted by petty thieves acting as messengers, who told the child that they were to relieve him of the burden while he returned to his employer for more urgent business. From this we get the expression "to kid out of." When we kid a person out of some possession, we work the "Kid rig...