Word: charlatanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Casanova was an imposing figure over six feet tall: "satiric, satanic, sensuous. An ugly man, swarthy, hawklike, with beady eyes . . . thin elongated nose." A charlatan, cardsharp, liar, forger, adulterer, seducer, jailbird, he was still a "student of humanities . . . connoisseur of the arts and sciences, philosopher, dramatist and poet." A worldly man, with few illusions, Casanova had some profound convictions. "It was one of his staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which...
...stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It crackles softly as it passes over their flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes with his "pencil"-a childishly simple high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery. If they go away and claim to be cured of everything from appendicitis to housemaid's knee that is their business. The Pencil Man will...
...Lloyd George seems unduly hurt," said Chancellor Churchill, "because I advise the electors not to be taken in by quackery, charlatanism and thimble-rigging.* I am always anxious not to irritate people unnecessarily, so I hereby announce that I will, for the future, in this election, drop the word charlatan and use instead the word 'cheapjack' as applied to Lloyd George's scheme...
...distinguished lawyers are criminal lawyers. The big fees and the prestige result from study and practice of corporation law, estate law, banking law and to a less extent divorce law. Criminal law is a subject left to the unscrupulous shyster, the political heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation between the lawyers...
...seemed to ring true. Nan Britton did not sound like an adventuress but like a smalltown girl who felt she had experienced one of the worlds great loves. Moreover, names and places, letters, photographs and episodes were in great and confident profusion through the book. The bravest, most brazen charlatan would never have dared so much...