Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must be admitted that some of the dialogue is amusing, but too much of it partakes of the nature of this remark, which turns up in the midst of some supposedly sophisticated love-making: "Your feet are too big." The chief character turns out to be a cheat; he's not a gangster, but merely a charming fellow escaping from a subpoena as witness in a divorce. The climax of the plot is indicated by the fact that you catch on to this long before it's revealed, but this does not make the preliminary scene that fools...
...unburdening himself. At first he writes for newspapers, magazines, or any sort of publishing business he can find willing to accept his work. In this venture he finds no outlet, and when he meets the one woman whom he can really love, he agrees to her proposal that they cheat life by taking their own lives. It is only when he realizes that by exposing his soul, by writing his innermost thoughts and emotions, he can find happiness, that he sees the folly in this. Thus out of the gloom and depression of his adolescence, he finds...
...drag President Roosevelt into court and charge him with malfeasance in devaluing the U. S. dollar in such fashion as to "cheat" holders of U. S. Government bonds is impossible, but under French law last week the French Taxpayers Federation, which claims a membership of 1,000,000 filed such a suit against both Premier Leon Blum and Finance Minister Vincent Auriol...
...gold have been piled aboard transatlantic steamers and trans-Channel planes. Such "flights from the franc" have more than once been at a faster rate than they were last week -but with that obstinacy which is a leading French characteristic, Cabinet after Cabinet in Paris refused to yield and cheat possessors of francs by reducing the value of the money in their hands until and unless Washington and London should join Paris in agreement to make the new monetary basis stable all around. Among economic experts agreement reigned that the franc should be devalued because: 1) devaluation of the currencies...
That certainly has blacklisted N. C. University and undoubtedly will have a bad effect on the lives of the 40 expelled students. The trouble, as 1 see it, lies in the education system of most colleges which practically compels students to cheat. Too much emphasis is placed on exams and not on daily work. I am a graduate of Penn State '28, which is noted for its Penn Stale Honor Code. Still there is cheating. Yet there is no cheating in classes conducted by profs who play fair with the students. I know men who would not cheat...