Word: sleight
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...society, but he believes it can be achieved only by the concentration of political or economic power." By this standard, Communists no less than Fascists are reactionary; New Dealers ("who are not Communists but who nevertheless believe in a great increase in government power") were able only by intellectual sleight-of-hand to call this reactionary doctrine liberal...
...profit on every $1,000. Another arose from the fact that the debentures carried warrants to purchase A. G. & E. Co. stock. While the debentures were in ASECO's (or PUI's) hands, these warrants would be detached and exercised below the then market price. By such sleight of hand, Hopson's companies are said in the indictment to have made more than...
...before hemisphere trade solidarity is achieved, there is many a headachy problem to be solved. One of these is straightening out foreign exchange, now all muddled because: 1) of the financial sleight-of-hand worked by Germany in building up its Latin American markets, 2) some South American currencies (notably the Argentine) have been tied to the bouncing British pound...
...piece Gillette which opens up like a clamshell is basically his invention. This spring, just to see if he could do it, he wrote a mystery story, Murder in Newport, which Scribner's accepted and published. He also plays the mouth organ (upside down) and does sleight-of-hand...
This gentleman has dazzled Massachusetts with his virtuosity ever since the days of Charles Ponzi, the sleight-of-hand banker whose blow-up rocked Boston 18 years ago. Mr. McMasters was Mr. Ponzi's pressagent.* When the blow-up came, the Boston Post scooped the story. Its informant: Pressagent McMasters...