Schultz flimflams everybody, and in some cases shoots the person he's teasing, popping him in the chest with a tiny pistol. |
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Each new Madoff revelation sheds light on an entire culture that allowed far loftier flimflams than his to succeed — though the loftier culprits, unlike him, usually escaped with the proceeds. |
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Congressional hearings into this and other Estes flimflams led to the highest levels of the Kennedy administration, particularly Johnson, who had been a business associate of Mr. Estes's in several ventures. |
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So here we are in frosty, socially conscious Poplar, passing tinsel-garlanded forceps to the doughty district nurses of Nonnatus House as they tend to a flurry of imperilled postwar flimflams. |
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