Word: deceitful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This time, the candidate picked red for red, blue for blue, yellow for yellow. So speedy and accurate was he that naval surgeons marveled to see how a pair of human eyes could improve in 48 hours. They questioned the candidate, soon confused him, discovered the deceit. Candidate Rupp and his employe were soon arrested, lodged in a police cell under $2,000 bond, charged with attempting to defraud the U. S. out of a $12,000 education at its Naval Academy...
...Herrick," purred Count Quiñones, "like other great statesmen who refused to subscribe to that deep-rooted greed which makes duplicity and deceit the best weapons of diplomacy, never employed any other resources than those which translated his most intimate sentiments, namely, sincere affability, loyal frankness and perfect cordiality...
Turning to politics, he added: "We should rid ourselves of the camouflage of diplomats. Camouflage was conceived in deceit and born in dishonor. It lies both by inference and directly...
Felix Nawn, conscientious, silent, inarticulate, is reminiscent of Gene Stratton Porter's Jaspar in "The White Flag." He is a sincere man, but haplessly imbued with a grain of deceit which ultimately leads him to his grave. "Poor, kind, bungling, ineffectual Felix"! He is indispensable, for had he not had the power to draw from Sheilah Miller her unreasoning compassion, there would have been no conflict and no story. These protagonists are direct antitheses not only socially, but intellectually and spiritually...
...Club of Massachusetts, speaks openly of the "laugh that is sweeping the country" as a result of the Mayor's activities; and although Professor Hart denies that he is in the pay of a foreign power, on one can expect Mayor Thompson to believe such a patent effort at deceit...