Word: swindler
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...turns out to be an eccentric crook, is called upon for a song; also when the stranger makes advances to the village belle (Magda Schneider) in whom the singer has taken an interest. The situation is untangled when she demands a serenade. When police try to arrest the swindler they naturally get the wrong man. Then comes the anticipated scene in which, to establish his identity, Enrico Ferraro sings arias from Rigoletto at police headquarters...
...Reed. But even the most high-powered Manhattan legal talent agreed that there was only one thing to do: get slick little Crook-Defender Max D. Steuer, "greatest trial lawyer of our time." A brilliant, inconspicuous, hawk-faced Austrian Jew, Max Steuer has defended George Graham Rice, tireless stock swindler; Maurice Connolly, Queens sewer grafter. Harry Daugherty, boss of the Ohio Gang: Max ("Boo Boo") Hoff, Philadelphia underworld chief. He is the profession's ablest exponent of the old legal saw for a weak case: "Try the judge, try your opponent, try the police...
Those who were amazed recently at the disclosure by Sing Sing's chaplain that the Ossining Bastile harbored many a college graduate are due for another shock when they contemplate the presence of an alleged gentleman swindler on the Harvard faculty. It was bad enough to hear that men who had been higher-educated were slipping from the primrose path in some numbers; it is considerably worse to find that those who are hired to nurture them so carefully are often no better than they should...
Upon being questioned yesterday afternoon, the Department of Economics stated that "Economics 30", which has been given during the first half year by J. F. Normano, visiting lecturer from South America, who has been recently exposed as Dr. Isaak Lewin, German swindler, who has baffled the most efficient brains of the Berlin secret police for three years, would not be given in the second half year...
...items in the Price, Waterhouse report give the measure of Ivar Kreuger as a crook and a swindler: "Withdrawn by Ivar Kreuger on current accounts," and "Securities and other assets appropriated" -432,046,000 Swedish kroner net, at par about...