Word: rumdum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brains and intensity. H. H. Tammen had brains and charm. It was his creed that, if a man was going to be a faker, he must be a magnificent one. He kept his desk drawer full of paper money in small denominations. Any panhandler, honest "broke" or sleasy rumdum who got in? to see him?and any- one could?was sure of a handout. "Take it," Tammen would chuckle. "It's good money, all right. I made it." And no one is sure yet how H. H. Tammen, facile vender of scenic art views at the World's Fair...
...local daily, upon whose stalwart young person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire des Pirates Anglois, with a marker at the tale of fearless Mary Read, entered the gathering whirl of events through another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away by a thirsty rumdum to whom Mr. Moggs had given a pint of whiskey instead of a dole. It looked to Kendrick like a good little story. It became an epic. Ruth Pudley's bright-haired presence is even simpler to explain. She was "busted" out of Bryn Mawr for "deplorable contumacy of conduct...
...from Chile to Buenos Aires stuck in a snowdrift on the Andes Mountains and had to turn back to Los Andes. Nor was he more than slightly startled when, as he strolled the streets of that town, bored by the oppressive company of his persona] detective, he saw a rumdum reel out of a saloon, strike a companion with a stone, receive, in return, a knife-thrust in the stomach. He caught the sagging body in his arms, directed, after a solicitous inquiry, that it be removed to a hospital...
...other. Without a word, but trembling slightly, they turned and began to hurry as fast as their gout-stiffened limbs would carry them, toward the clubhouse. Who but a thief or a nonmember would run around the course as if he were afraid of his shadow? Who but a rumdum or a simpleton would play his ball without taking a stance? It was clearly a matter to be reported. Some 20 minutes later the two dotards, traveling at their turtle pace, reached the 18th green, approached the greenskeeper...