Word: contrivedness
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The technique used involved a specially contrived hocked instrument, which "fished" the $90 note out through the slit. This method, he conjectured, would be particularly effective if the check rested on a stack of Christmas cards and other uncollected Yuletide communications.
As for the already classic love scenes, some will find them highly instructive, while other will just be overpowered. But nobody will deny that, with the exception of the Joel McCrra-Jean Arthur neeking in "The More the Merrier" a few years back, they are the best of their kind...
Last week Ruark reminded his readers that it was an even year since the Navy "granted me its most priceless boon, that final handshake." On his anniversary, he took inventory of his crusades. Mostly they were small-bore: by carefully contrived cracks against radio, Southern cooking, horse operas, hairdos and...
Prizewinner Knaths, 54, was apprenticed to a baker at 19. He used discarded box linings for drawing paper, contrived hundreds of escapes from the steaming bakery into a world of his own making. As an art student, Knaths learned a new escape trick: Pablo Picasso and Swiss fantasist Paul Klee...
The story is lasciviously simple, especially for those with an eye for triangles and the more intricate geometrics d'amour so deftly contrived by the remorseless Noel. At the apex is the immoral Gary Essendine (Webb), whom Noel has attempted to bless with his own aphroditie charm, the eomic pace...