Word: betrayals
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...social comment are especially feeble. They apparently felt that no play could dare to appear before this hyper-socially-conscious world without some reference to President Roosevelt, the American race problem, Communism, and "Comes the Revolution", even if that play be an avowed farce. Their allusions to these matters betray an awkwardness and an uneasiness and nothing more...
...tried vainly to change his plea. Last week, grey and broken at 43, the temperamental Annapolis graduate who was cashiered from the Navy ten years ago appeared in court, paled as he heard the return he would have to make for the $20,000 he was paid to betray his country: ". . . not less than four years nor more than twelve years in prison...
...Last week the committee produced figures to show that General Motors, biggest Pinkerton customer, had paid at least $419,850. Pinkerton services to G. M. had ended suddenly only the previous fortnight. Most of the G. M. jobs were the routine stuff of planting agents in labor unions to betray them. But one shocker revealed a new angle of U. S. labor espionage, cast a shadow not only on Pinkerton ethics but on Pinkerton competence...
...grips designed to get an opponent off his feet as quickly as possible, teaches his charges not to let opponents wriggle out of their grasp. Once on the mat, a blind wrestler's acute sense of touch often outweighs his opponent's ability to see. Twitching muscles betray the grip an opponent intends, permit a blind wrestler to break it before it is completed. Broken arms and ribs among blind wrestlers are no more common than among their non-blind confreres. Curious foibles are no less rare. In last week's match, Overbrook's opponent...
Certain aspects of the plan betray a surprising lack of generosity on the part of the University. Morning lectures are to be recorded and not put on the air until later in the day when the audience is larger. This is rank discrimination against the American housewife, and promises to become a breeder of privilege. Imagine the pleasure that would come into the lives of our wives and mothers if during mornings spent bent over a hot stove or steaming washtub they could turn a switch and hear a lecture from Mallinckrodt, perhaps by Professor Kohler, giving them some...