Word: contrivedness
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Small operators reacted violently against the big steelmen, the big coal operators, John Lewis. They called the whole contract a "conspiracy" between Big Labor and Big Business, callously contrived to squeeze out the small owners. The anxiety of the big operators over possible antitrust suits had been, in fact, one...
Nowhere in the world were there meatier, tastier ducks than those which the Emperor Tung Chi raised in the Imperial aviaries at Peking, China. In 1873 a Connecticut Yankee named James E. Palmer contrived to bring three of the Emperor's ducks and one indispensable drake to the U.S...
The South & West have been fighting ever since to get the rates down. They claimed that their high rates were part of a dark conspiracy contrived by eastern capital. They cited examples to show how they had been handicapped (a manufacturer in New York could ship the 852 miles into...
Bearer's Scheme. Abbott's tax schedules are cunningly contrived to meet this border competition. But only in the lowest brackets are they below current U.S. rates (see box). Farther up the scale, they still take more from the pocket than does the U.S. Treasury.
A majority of Manhattan critics found the film baffling, disappointing, offensive, and, in stretches, plain boring. But a few enjoyed the subtle, tragicomic ironies germinated by Chaplin's powers of intuition, of pure feeling, and of observation. The set pieces of pure slapstick are as skilled and delightful, and...