Word: swindlers
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More sinister is the Toledo jam. After each nickel the player inserts, he jams the coin plunger in as hard as possible. Eventually the spring returning the plunger in as hard as possible. Eventually the spring returning the plunger weakens, fails to work, and the swindler enjoys some ill-gotten games...
...vain hands bent on sacrifice or clasped in prayer we see; The ways of God are not exactly what those ways should be. The swindler and the ruffian lead pleasant lives enough, While judgments overtake the good and many a sharp rebuff . . . And if great God Almighty fails to keep the balance true, What can we hope that paltry mortal magistrates will...
...modern "swindler," says Orwell, would probably turn it out like this...
...When swindler Clarence Charles Hatry was sentenced to 14 years in jail (two of them at hard labor), he lamented: "My name has become a byword, and I am irretrievably ruined...
...last week, Indian Service officials had tricked out Chief Cachirere in white man's clothes. But he was unhappy. He considered clothes unhealthy, Rio's purified water unsafe for drinking. In far-off Goiaz, federal police were tracking down the supposed quartz swindler. If white man had wronged red man in Brazil, justice would be done...