Word: deceits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that sort of thing can go only so far. She played the part of a music hall dancer who contrived to get herself adopted by a Baroness in order to marry a wealthy English youth. Five minutes before the wedding the youth, learning all, is distraught with her deceit. Furious at the collapse of his true love she rips off her wedding dress and flees the gathering, just as the guest of honor a stuffy, haughty prince, sweeps majestically upon the scene. This may sound pretty palpitating, but one must listen to a lot of sluggish stuff before the climax...
...witch doctor and rapped seering words: "The Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] is a costly luxury. . . and a ghastly failure. . . . "His first† budget was a rich man's budget, his second- was that of a profligate bankrupt, and this, his third, is a combination of both with jugglery and deceit added .- "I believe that the present budget offers us at best but a temporary reprieve by means of artful dodges. . . . I predict that, even if no unforseen events happen next year, the Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] will find himself having to face the country with a deficit. . . .† Finally, the blame...
...dawn for the king's bride-a flax-haired Lancelot for a bucolic Arthur. They pledge their fraternity over staked swords. . . . Later, in a druidic Devon wood, Aelfrida's beauty twists this pledge. It is too early in history for a Lancelot to live with his own deceit. He buries his dagger in his own chest for brother-love, which is yet held above love for woman. Hasty critics have objected that such a tragedy belies human nature and should hinge more heavily on the sex motif. Which objection misses the gist of a drama laid...
...mouths that vanish when you look closely. Only some knots, bark or grain-wrinkles remain. A gnarled shrub will be writhing and snickering like a soul lost and sarcastic in a twilit place, until you examine. Then you see it was only some Rackham lines, perpetually innocent in their deceit...
What was this name which she could not remember? The public soon found it out. Her name was Fraud, Charlatanism, Trickery, Guile, Deceit. She, one Alma Sioux Scarberry, employee of the New York Daily Mirror (Hearst), had been "planted" to play her role as a publicity stunt. The Daily Mirror was about to publish a serial novel by Elinor Glyn relating the adventures of the vanished British woman, Miss Levy. Hence the carefully arranged passport pictures, the initials, the English money, in the fraud's vanity-case. Hence the dastardly clever reference to Elinor Glyn. Next day the Mirror publicly...