Word: cheate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gaillard are information agents, he for the South, she for the North. The scene in which Marion Davies says "I love you so" is promptly followed by the one in which a Confederate soldier informs Gary Cooper that she is a spy. Then, true to type, he calls her "cheat" and "liar." Even so, Operator 13 remains a sumptuous melodrama, moody, sensational and elegantly trimmed. Good shot: Marion Davies weeping when she learns that the fiance of her Richmond hostess (Jean Parker) has been killed in a surprise attack for which she is responsible...
...charges with the words written across their face: "Not a True Bill." The jury's refusal to indict spared Andrew William Mellon the humiliation of having to defend himself in court on the charge that, as Secretary of the Treasury, he had brazenly and deliberately tried to cheat on his income tax return...
...mean," Lonnie says slowly, "I is a nigger you cain't cheat...
...patient unraveling shows a general if sometimes unconscious concentric design, spiraling ever closer to monopolistic unity. Rough-&-ready "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, plebeian founder of a proudly aristocratic family, trusted nobody, kept all his accounts in his head. One of his business letters: Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I will not site you, for law takes too long. I "will ruin you. Sincerely yours, Cornelius Vanderbilt. On his deathbed he refused the bottle of champagne prescribed by the doctor, stingily demanded, ''Won't sody-water do instead?" Psalm-singing Daniel Drew, credited with inventing "watered...
Most players enjoy these holdings less frequently than they should. They cheat themselves out of juicy hands by hasty or unskillful shuffling which does not produce true random distribution. After a hand of play the pack is composed of 13 tricks the great majority of which contain three or four cards of like suit. If the deal is made from this unshuffled pack, each player will get one card from each trick, and the result will be a number of 3-and 4-card suits typical of weak hands. Poor shuffling does not correct this tendency. After examining hundreds...