Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wheelis said that a bill giving residents a larger measure of con- trol in any urban renewal project affecting their homes will be introduced in the legislature Tuesday morning. Immediately afterward, the lawyer for the North Harvard residents, William Homans, Jr. will go to court to obtain a restraining order halting the evictions while the bill is being considered
They don't all love him. An Asheville, N.C., gift-shop owner calls him "a con man with honey in his mouth." A Texas doctor denounces him as "a crook and a liar." A Wisconsin dairy farmer criticizes him for being "too fatherly...
...inferior arm of British intelligence ("the Department") to haul itself back into the Establishmentarian swim on Leiser's shoulders. With a typically British mixture of ineptness and guile, the seven men who still operate the Department in the drab house on Blackfriars' Road, jostle for position, portentously con "the Minister" for a bigger budget, extra limousines, higher status. And on Cambridge Circus, another and superior division of British intelligence cynically sees the whole exercise as a chance to get rid of an inferior nuisance. "The Circus" provides only obsolete equipment and minimum cooperation. The Department men compound this...
...registering as a "resident" and petitioning the local court to grant him a divorce based on incompatibility with his wife Susan. Susan's lawyer duly appeared to admit the allegation and submit her to the court's jurisdiction. So split the Kaufmanns. "Vaya con Dios," said the judge in the traditional Mexican farewell to the divorced...
Made in 1932 during the Depression, the film concerns the life of the overly rich. Into the poshsetting Lubitsch injects a con man par excellence, far smoother than the bungling James Bond, with overtones of the earthy Mack the Knife. A zany situation comedy follows, set on a foundation of social pretense. Lubitsch pours on the humor, doubling joke upon joke, until his audience splits with laughter. Thirty years later it is just a s effective...