Word: contrivedness
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It is two score years since the late John E. Dooley, then owner of Antelope Island, contrived to take there a small band of buffalo. How he managed this feat no one living seems to know. It baffled one A. H. Leonard who bought the buffalo herd last April with...
During the night some person or persons unknown, armed with a very sharp saw, contrived to reach through the bars and saw the stem of the tree nearly in two, so that the tree itself drooped over the top of its cage. No motive could be ascribed for what was...
There is nothing unusual about the plot of "They Knew What They Wanted". Sidney Howard has used a none too unique form of the well-known triangle and has contrived to capture some sort of a happy ending by providing a magnanimous husband; a courageous wife, and a good-hearted...
A whole dramatic library has flowed from the devious but prodigiously brilliant pen of Professor Luigi Pirandello. His academic intimates know him as an erudite philosopher philologist. But to the world he is the playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Last week he contrived in actuality at...
Casual, unobtrusive, the Marquis Panlucci Decaboli, private secretary to Premier Mussolini, boarded a wagon-lit at Rome two months ago, and was whisked toward Spain -ostensibly to visit his father-in-law, the Italian Ambassador at Madrid. The Marquis, a diplomat of talent, force, parts contrived by the aid of...