Boiler room (business) protection. A fictional "boiler room" brokerage firm was dramatized in the 2000 film "Boiler Room", and the play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross" show a similar boiler room operation selling real estate. The 2013 film "The Wolf of Wall Street", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, also involves a boiler-room investment business and is based on the memoir of convicted penny stock fraudster, Jordan Belfort. A 2010 episode of the television series "White Collar" depicted fictional conman Neal Caffrey infiltrating a group of corrupt brokers also peddling inflated penny stocks. Boiler room (business) In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound
Four-letter word letters. Typical examples include the word "work", implying that work can be unpleasant, or the game of "golf", jokingly referred to as a four-letter word when a player's pastime becomes an exercise in frustration. "Charlotte Observer" journalist Doug Robarchek noted in 1993 how many politicians have names with four letters, "Ever notice how many U.S. politicians have names that are also four-letter words? Ford, Dole, Duke, Bush, Gore ... and how many make us think of four-letter words?" Four-letter word The phrase four-letter word refers to a set of English-language words written with four letters which are considered profane, including