Word: cheate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...imitation have all been a year or two old. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova is a sombre melodrama about a young woman who leaves a Russian general to become the mistress of a lieutenant and who goes back to the general again to save her lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material, unreal and overacted, but stamped with the European cachet of original direction and distinguished by the blonde beauty of Brigitte Helm. Best shot: the introductory sequence, repeated again at the end, in which the spectator follows the camera's eye through...
...Henry character-"A Double-Dyed Deceiver" has been retouched by Oliver .H. P. Garrett-but he is no Arizona Kid. Background is an element which must be weighed carefully in appraising the characters of disguised bandits called Kid. Gary Cooper is the Llano Kid. He is about to cheat an old South American woman out of all her worldly goods when his better nature awakens. Most tiresome shot: Gary Cooper's profile...
...Emperor Claudius wrote a book on the Roman form of the game. Domitian was an adept and Caligula a cheat. Its English name comes from the Saxon baec (back) and gamen (game)-a game in which the draughtsmen are liable to be sent back. For a long time it has been played on sidewalk tables in European restaurants, on steamers, in school common rooms, and in nurseries. In the U. S. it has gained new favor in the last year. Its vogue came mysteriously, quickly: boards, once relatively easy to get, came to be in such demand that...
Parliament wished to take baths. Was this an effort to cheat the British public? If not, when if ever would the ladies of Parliament wash...
...until he is shaved. It is very tiring to have to look at a husband early in the morning." The diary ends with Peggy unmarried again as she was in the beginning. But she leaves you with the impression that she has already begun to cheat old age, and will probably cheat Death...