Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wolf of Wall Street. For defense of the German Government, Dr. Karl von Lewinski opened his rebuttal by crying: "We cannot allow the American nation to get the impression that the German Government, before America entered the war, carried on a campaign of frightfulness against America...
...Scaeattae are interesting in being more or less degenerate copies of Roman coins. Three of them show an animal form similar to a porcupine, in reality a conventionalization of the wolf and twins design found on Roman coins. This series dates from sometime before 500 A. D. until a little after...
From these days of big game, Wolf Lamar has sunk far, as have a great many other Wolves of Wall Street. In 1927 he was charged with the act most typical of the Street's wolves-raising the price of securities through "wash" sales to friends...
Once he telephoned Morgan Partner Ledyard, said he was Congressman (later Attorney-General) A. Mitchell Palmer, suggested that Mr. Ledyard interview a man who could fix J. P. Morgan with the Democratic Administration. Soon afterward Wolf Lamar was convicted, jailed for impersonating a Government officer...
Last week Wolf Lamar, heavy, well-dressed, soft-voiced, continued to fulfill the common conception of his type. Cool, bland, he appeared unimpressed by charges that he had been conducting a brokerage business under the name of Murdock & Co., had failed to deliver 2,500 shares of Fox Film, could not account for the proceeds from 1,000 Grigsby-Grunow. His attitude coincided with that of his attorney who said: "The charges are a thousand miles from grand larceny." Reticent about himself, Wolf Lamar continued uttering such ultimatums as: "It is a bull market today and bear operators will...