Word: contrivedness
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In the clubhouse were John D. Hertz, Jack Dempsey, Postmaster General Farley, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane and J. H. Louchheim of Philadelphia, who bet $1,000 on his Morpluck and then contrived to lose his pari-mutuel tickets to a pickpocket who got no good out of them. A squad...
¶ Sequel to this dogfight came in the testimony of a handsome brunette named Elsie Walker who said that a Cities Service Co. undercover agent had planted her in Frank Parish's office. She explained that the agent had promised to help her out of certain financial difficulties if...
As is likely to be the case with cinema stories which are genuinely suited to their medium, no recapitulation of the plot of The Whole Town's Talking can begin to convey its superlative qualities as entertainment. Equipped with material which they could have used as the basis for...
Father Coughlin concluded his address by reciting as a prayer the 82nd Psalm, with interpolations. Excerpts: "Oh God . . . thy enemies have made a noise. . . . They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people. . . . They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation, and...
Gestures of this sort, and the fact that attendance is not so far ahead of last year's as it should be in view of the team's prowess, irritate its owner, Chicago's Major Frederic McLaughlin who attends Black Hawks' games with his famed wife...