Sentence:  "Hey, Pinski! You old <WSD>boodler</WSD>! How much do you expect to get out of this traction business?" (This from a voice somewhere in the rear.) / Mr. Pinski (turning to one side as if pinched in the neck). "The man that says I am a <WSD>boodler</WSD> is a liar! I never took a dishonest dollar in my life, and everybody in the Fourteenth Ward knows it." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  One, especially a politician, who seeks or receives boodle; a political grafter.