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...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 as extorting money from homosexuals and, more recently, from income tax violators ("the Federal shake...
...Masses and The New Yorker together, shake hard, Gallicize, move back a century to the time when to be Left in France was to be Republican, and you have something like La Caricature and its daily successor Le Charivari, the periodicals by which Honore Daumier earned 30 years' living, six months in jail, and undying fame as an artist. Beginning in the second decade after the Napoleonic Wars, hardworking lithographers including Traviès, Gavarni and Grandville filled these sheets with caricatures of Bonapartist reactionaries and canting bourgeois. Daumier, who worked hardest & longest, died blind and penniless...
Twice during the first period, Coach Neil Stahley's men broke inside the Bruin ten-yard line, to no avail and then saw Brown shake loose a runner in the last half for the lone tally...
...because of the country's size, and her difficulty with domestic revolts. In 1894 war with China over her shadowy suzerainty in Korea gave Japan a chance to prove her military superiority. The obvious mastery of western technique, Gardner said, by a formerly despised oriental neighbor went far to shake Chinese scholars from an attitude of complacent self-satisfaction...
...Polo Grounds Promoter Michael Strauss Jacobs, as a last gesture before taking over the boxing franchise of the great Madison Square Garden, staged fights for four champions instead of three-all on one night. Into the ring to grace this Carnival of Champions climbed Heavyweight Joe Louis to shake hands with his most recent opponent, Tommy Farr. But Champion Joe Louis, Mike Jacobs' star attraction, did not fight that night for the paying customers...