Word: swindler
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...sending you this letter for your protection and if, in the future, you are approached with any proposition looking to the payment of money for or on account of TOWN TOPICS you should at once turn the solicitor over to the authorities as a swindler...
Adventurous souls who find safe-cracking monotonous and petty thievery degrading have flocked to rum running, a trade to test their spirit and to make their fortunes. In that occupation they find the tang of a sailor's life, the profits of a swindler, the exhilaration of evading the law, and a dash of old-time bucaneering...
...Beware of the swindler" is another warning. Occasionally some "good fellow" goes the rounds, selling "imported" cloth, encyclopedias, or sundry other articles, and incidentally trying to draw students into gambling games. In the past such persons have usually succeeded in getting out of Cambridge before the police have discovered their presence; if notified at once, the authorities could arrest the swindlers and punish them under...
...case in particular has come to my notice of a graduate giving seminars in subjects which he was utterly unfit to teach. Now, such a man may think he is a very able fellow to be earning money in such ways, but to any candid mind he is a swindler. I speak of this simply to warn freshmen against going to seminars indiscriminately. Let me add that I am not in any way a rival to seminar givers, nor have I ever been to them for help; I give my facts entirely as some friends gave them...
There is a plausable swindler going about college representing himself as a journalist in needy circumstances. He has already succeeded in making considerable money by his representation and men are warned to be on their guard against...