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...Sweetheart Swindler of Century Village b) The most respected newsman in Scooterville c) Riding a scooter set to be auctioned d) Positive Brinkley is in the sidecar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Feb. 26, 2001 | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...faith in government has slid steadily downward since Watergate. Was it possible that a public so disillusioned with its leaders could accept the portrait of a politician with a magnetic personality, a benevolent heart, and a philosophy of being "for the people" who is neither a stooge nor a swindler...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Barlet for President in 2000 | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

DIED. WILLIAM LAMBERT, 78, Pulitzer-prizewinning forebear of modern-day investigative journalists whose 1969 LIFE expose of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas (he accepted $20,000 from a stock swindler) led to the jurist's resignation nine days later; in Bryn Mawr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 23, 1998 | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Florentine landowners, in order to provide his daughter and her lover with the money they need to wed. All of the opera's characters are sharply delineated, with a delicate but mordant touch of satire--the greedy relatives (the Donati), the starry-eyed lover (Rinuccio), and the resourceful swindler (Schicchi...

Author: By John D. Shepherd, | Title: Dunster House Scales Puccini | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...return, with characters modeled on colorful real-life denizens of that era, and the setting is Maxim's, then a well-known Lisbon night spot. Through its doors parade a fascist army general with an eye for beautiful women, a count who has gambled away his fortune and a swindler who boldly tricked the London printer of Portuguese banknotes to run off an extra 100 million escudos for him. The money set him up in banking, mining and a railroad in the Congo before he landed in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sightings | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

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