Word: swindler
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...taped over his liver, like a mustard plaster, is a wad of 80,000 yen. Junpei prefers to live by his wits instead of his money, and hits the road to put the touch on all who cross his zigzag path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although her scars are really from a childhood encounter with a fireplace. "My white corpuscles decrease daily-sometimes I swoon from anemia," she says with a pitiful passion. But she has to use sweet-potato moonshine, rather than...
Baron Munchausen was a grand character, but he was a fiction. Gaston Bullock Means, however, was for real. When he died at 59 in 1938, he was justifiably reckoned to be just about the most preposterous liar and swindler ever to smile at a sucker. In Spectacular Rogue, Author-Journalist Edwin Hoyt examines that certain smile with more journalistic competence than stylistic flair. Still, Gaston Means himself would be pleased...
...Germany. She fails to mention a well-organized plot to overthrow Hitler in 1938, which was sabotaged by Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich. She goes so far as to charge the Resistance leaders with sharing Hitler's aims, since they referred to him as a "swindler" and a "madman," but never as a "murderer." This seems a smug academic distinction in view of the fact that no people were tortured more horribly by the Gestapo than Germans who opposed Hitler...
...fact that Bobby recently testified-voluntarily-against two former Democratic Representatives, Maryland's Thomas F. Johnson and Alabama's Frank Boykin. The two were charged with accepting money for using influence in an attempt to persuade the Justice Department-including Bobby himself-to let a convicted land swindler off easy. Bobby insists that his testimony against the pair was necessary; his critics say that it was not and only managed to increase tensions between Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...board to permit the transfer of many of United Dye's assets to worthless insurance companies that he controlled. After he had managed to siphon off some $2,000,000 of the company's assets, Birrell sold his 38,500 United Dye shares. They went to another swindler. Alexander Guterma, who installed himself as chairman and Dardi as president...