It is incomprehensible that any one could imagine that our paper currency system is fraudulent because there are a few "green-goods" men in the country, or because counterfeit bills appear every now and then. ❋ Henry H. Harper (N/A)
"Oh, no; I happened to meet The Croak this morning -- you know The Croak, he's in the green-goods line?" ❋ Lemuel Ely Quigg (N/A)
That shameless old green-goods man who sneaked it from me has had the gall, the nerve, to put it all by itself, with a notice as big as a circus poster alongside of it saying that it is a Cheops of the Fourth Dynasty, presented "-- Mr. Peters choked --" presented by J. Preston Peters, Esquire! ❋ Unknown (1928)
Broadway sees two dozen that are simply so much green-goods. ❋ Unknown (1919)
It is better than the green-goods game, better than the wire-tapping swindle, safer than selling any other form of gold bricks. ❋ Unknown (1910)
With our friend Charles as their sponsor, there sprang into being herds of "sick engineers," fake "wire-tappers," "green-goods" swindlers, and confidence men of all sorts, who flourished safely under the protection of the decision of the Court of Appeals in McDuff's case. ❋ Arthur Cheney Train (1910)
"But Greenfield and the men who engineered this thing look to me like a bunch of green-goods men who live on the confidence of the people." ❋ Harold Bell Wright (1908)
Hungry Joe and the man who invented the green-goods game would be skinned to death if they had to buy a dozen eggs from one of 'em. ❋ Francis Metcalfe (1899)
Crook and guy, steerer and turner, keepers of gambling-hells and shy saloons, dealers in green-goods, {*} come forward with their eager stories of what seems to them oppression and wrong. ❋ Charles Whibley (1894)
Over our land to-day are big, able Americans, long-headed and experienced, adept at a jack-knife swap or a horse trade -- industrious farmers, hard-handed miners, shrewd manufacturers, each in his own line a good business man, yet these sturdy traders, whom the "gold-brick" artist or the "green-goods" practitioner would never dream of tackling, come weekly into Wall ❋ Thomas William Lawson (1891)
If you should happen to keep a grocery store in the country, or to run the village post-office, it is not unlikely that you know what a green-goods man is; but in case you don't, and have only a vague idea as to how he lives, a paragraph of explanation must be inserted here for your particular benefit. ❋ Richard Harding Davis (1890)
The "trailer" for the green-goods men who rented room No. 8 in Case's tenement had had no work to do for the last few days, and was cursing his luck in consequence. ❋ Richard Harding Davis (1890)
So when the green-goods men, of whom the genial Mr. Alf Wolfe was the chief, asked Snipes to act as "trailer" for them at a quarter of a dollar for every victim he shadowed, he jumped at the offer and was proud of the position. ❋ Richard Harding Davis (1890)
Green goods is the technical name for counterfeit bills, and the green-goods men send out circulars to countrymen all over the United States, offering to sell them $5,000 worth of counterfeit money for $500, and ease their conscience by explaining to them that by purchasing these green goods they are hurting no one but the Government, which is quite able, with its big surplus, to stand the loss. ❋ Richard Harding Davis (1890)
