Word: swindlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then, U.S. cant has grown so rapidly that today it is "numerically larger than the British"-and still so wildly prolific that just before his book went to press, hardworking Lexicographer Partridge ordered a batch of addenda bound in to catch such sprouts, new to him, as winchell (a swindler's victim), boodled (loaded with cash), cooties' reveille (lights-out in the cells), hoochie-papping (stealing another man's girl), goof ball (marijuana smoker) and mouse-kick (watch-pocket...
Died. Andrew Ponzi, 46, flashy wizard of the pool tables, three-time world pocket billiard champion (1935, '40, '43); of a heart ailment; in Philadelphia. Born Andrew D'Alessandro, he earned the lasting nickname "Ponzi" after "Get Rich Quick" Charles Ponzi, the Boston swindler, by nervily taking all challenges, habitually winning his bets...