Word: pocketbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central principle in all true con [confidence] rackets is to show a sucker how he can make some money by dishonest methods and then beat him in his attempted dishonesty." Standard forms: helping the victim ("prospect") to find a pocketbook, whose grateful owner, another thief, persuades him to invest money of his own in a fake gambling or brokerage office; arranging with the victim to cheat another member of the gang at cards or dice; selling counterfeit pawn tickets for supposedly stolen articles; selling shares in smuggled property; selling complicated but useless counterfeiting machines. Confidence men also practice such sidelines...
...Photo-Facts Publisher Fawcett offers little advice, much fact illustrated in encyclopedia fashion. "Jumping at conclusions," says Mr. Fawcett's "pocketbook of knowledge," "is all right if you have a solid base from which to jump. . . . Photo-Facts supplies a good firm groundwork of useful information from which to 'jump' accurately." Photo-Facts considered useful such stories as "White Man Westward" (Lewis & Clark), "Termite Menace," "Poe's Great Balloon Hoax," "Football From Pagan Rites." Added fillip was its "Newsstand University" section in which Dale Carnegie again bobbed up, this time with "Putting Yourself Across": typical Carnegie...
...interest lies is a lengthy process which entails horse races in Kentucky and Florida, cocktail hour in the United States Bar at Saratoga, an uproarious episode in a Miami hotel room, nocturnal yearling auctions at Saratoga, and a superb horse race after which, by lightening her fiance's pocketbook by $100,000, Duke finally makes Carol see that Hartley Madison is not the man for her to marry. By this time audiences have caught the upswing and excitement of the greatest U. S. betting sport and Lionel Barrymore has had time to steal the picture in the role...
...general guidance. If such assistance does not help, Harvard's o cial view is that the student isn't college calibre, and he ought to get out--not go to a tutoring school, cram for a few days or hours, and squeeze through examinations by the aid of his pocketbook...
...been felt, students do the more manly thing and come over the wall through barbed wire. It isn't unusual to meet a proctor waiting for you on the other side but, as one young Englishman put it, that's the surprise element which though hard on the pocketbook adds much to the sport of the feat...