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James Maxwell Murphy is correct. To the State of Wisconsin, apologies. But the adjacent connotation "badger v. t." which Webster does say derives from Wisconsin is as follows: "To beat down; cheat; barter; bargain...
...Muir) will indubitably go to the electric chair for the murder of his best friend unless he is willing to divulge his move ments on the night of the killing. At the last moment Mercer Trask (A. E. Anson), a barrister of the Clarence Darrow variety, is importuned to cheat the gallows, free Mr. Muir. Lawyer Trask has not been on the case half an hour before he divines that Mr. Muir is shielding a lady. It takes the rest of the evening to find the lady and make her confess. Because of her awesome social position and because...
...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...