Word: swindler
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John Wilson Snook (warden of the Atlanta penitentiary) selected from his flock a new chauffeur-Josiah Kirby, famed swindler of Cleveland, Ohio, who is serving a seven-year term for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Mr. Kirby's Cleveland Discount Co. had dealt in mischievous mortgages to the extent of more than...
...little irksome he blithely whistled good-bye to his diploma and the final semester, to become a painter. From his studies he was lured successively by Vermont, Alaska, the Straits of Magellan, Labrador, the Alps, Tierra del Fuego, Newfoundland. In one place he was arrested for assaulting a swindler. In Newfoundland, the good fisherfolk, seeing him staring out to sea in all kinds of bad weather, concluded he was a German spy signaling to submarines. "Oh, lots of things have happened to me. It's great stuff. I'll have to do something with it some day," laughs...
...their youthful charges one is still somewhat puzzled on trying to visualize the future morality course in actual operation. Such vexing matters as the text book of morality which should be chosen or its proper interpretation, just how honesty is to be made the guiding principle of a prominent swindler's son, or how respect for the flag is to be inspired without arousing dangerous international antipathies indicate a more difficult problem than the Senator seems to contemplate. Finally we are led to wonder how the youthful Nebraskans are to be instructed in the proper sense of the dignity...
Slender, getting bald; a wart on the left side of the nose. Protruding ears, sallow coloring. That is Isaac Shapiro, famed swindler, seven times convicted thief, now at large. That is also William Feit, honest salesman. Arraigned, Salesman Feit stood in court. Bondsmen, victims, detectives, policemen, identified him as Swindler Shapiro. He said he was innocent. Even his lawyer did not believe him. He faced life sentence. Honest Feit looked evilly around the court, whispered something to his lawyer, one Emmanuel Celler. Lawyer Celler, realizing that his client was sure to be convicted, put a fingerprint expert on the stand...
Presumably the courts will hold that the Doctor is no swindler be cause he supports the Dawes Plan-as the least of many possible evils-and has therefore contributed to the total devaluation of the pre-War paper mark and its replacement by the new gold mark...