Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lean, starvation War years passed, Mme. Belmont-Gobert was obliged to take her French neighbors into the secret of who hid behind her left-hand wardrobe door. Loyal, they did not betray her to the Germans, who paid well for such secrets. Instead the French villagers sent food from their own meagre rations to le soldat Anglais...
...German landholder, propounded this question in a campaign speech and answered it himself: "My friends, I will tell you one Christian the Jews have bought! Our Foreign Minister [Dr. Gustav Stresemann] has a villa and a castle given him as bribes by Jewish bankers to reveal State secrets and betray the Fatherland...
...latter's "friendship." But last week Chang saw that the Cantonese were pressing hard upon Sun. The time was opportune to forget the $2,000,000 payment that had passed between them. Chang, ever faithless, forgot it easily; last week, ordered his troops with Sun to betray the latter, and marched upon Shanghai himself with an army said to number...
...that the game was clean. The record of practices inflicted during the game is the only record of a referee worthy of consideration. Until the entire matter is definitely closed it is the province of the newspaper, no less the Crimson, to print charges and rebuttals even when they betray a lack of intelligence and good taste...
...other current Pirandello play, Naked, might lead theatregoers to suppose that this one from the same pen is also dull, verbose, untheatrical. They will be surprised, for in none of Broadway's numerous playhouses is such a constant, hilarious furor maintained. With hands discreetly hiding the lips that betray unseemly amusement, the audience chortles furtively but distinctly. For this Pirandello play is broad. Sea Captain Petella, a blustering fellow, who returns to his wife once every three months or so, absolutely refuses to do his natural duty as a husband. He wants no more children. Professor Paolina assumes...