Word: swindlers
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...whom he enormously respected. He had a dim-witted love of titles, once sent a letter to the University of Pennsylvania offering it the dedication of his Fourth Symphony in return for a doctor's degree. When his offer was ignored, he fell into the hands of a swindler, whom he paid a considerable sum to wangle him a degree from the University of Cincinnati. In his home, next to the bathtub, he kept a bust of himself on a pedestal...
...strange noise in the distance ... increased to a storm. An enormous mass of people ... a tempest of shouts and hoots ... an amazing column of cars in the avenue . . . thousands of people . . . shouting something about a 'swindler' who was caught trying to take off-in his plane. It must be the man he was looking for. It was. On a kind of tumbril ... sat President Roosevelt. A gigantic banner over his head read 'This man drove us to the shambles'. . . . Cameras whirred, the crowds pointed their fingers and sang derisory songs. Ash trays from the offices were...
Morris H. Siegel, who made himself a national reputation as an insurance counselor by his radio attacks on high-cost life-insurance policies, failed to convince a New York jury that he was libeled when a Metropolitan Life branch manager called him a swindler. His $10,000 suit was decided against him-but he still has two other damage actions, totaling $1,000,000, pending against various insurance companies...
Stephen Dutton was always considered a very fast man with a dollar - preferably someone else's dollar. But in his prime, in the dim, goldbrick, 0. Henry era of gentle grafters, patent-medicine fakers, conmen and bunco artists, Steve the Swindler was regarded as especially expert in talking himself into funds and out of trouble. He ranked with Grand Central Pete and Paper Collar Joe, who were tops in bilking the rubes; for a time Steve Dutton was partner of the old master, Perrin Sumner, who was known in the Gay '90s as The Great American Identifier...
Wilson met the forger just before Christmas vacation at a party. They became such good friends that the man spent a recent week with him here in Cambridge. But a few days after the swindler left here, the Coop discovered the forgery and questioned Wilson...