Word: deceits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...falls in love with the recipient (Jennifer Jones). After that, all hell breaks loose. The girl, in love with the letters, marries the man she thinks has written them; the husband is murdered. The girl, suspected of the murder, comes down with acute amnesia. Alan realizes that his own deceit has brought on the murder and the woe, and that if the girl recovers her memory, she will probably lose her mind. Despite all these causes for alarm, he marries her. Sure enough, she recovers her memory-just as an especially fancy piece of plot mechanics resolves everybody...
...Germans are savage to a degree almost inconceivable to anyone who has not had actual experience of them, and are a people born to deceit...
...Secret Dealing." The bargain was bad enough, but the deceit was worse. In the proposals drafted last fall at Dumbarton Oaks, and in all the whooping since then, the Assembly had been touted as the forum where all nations, big and small, would have an equal voice. True, a voice was about all the Assembly would have-the power was concentrated in the eleven-member Security Council, dominated by the big fellows. For that very reason, the Assembly's "sovereign equality" was precious to the little fellows...
Baldwin thought it high time Congress began to find out why all this should be. "For only by getting the facts ... no matter how punishing to our conceit-can we rid ourselves of the national habit of boastful self-deceit...
...ribbons the portrait of his martyred anti-Nazi father, calls Leona a Jewish tramp, bullies a Polish boy and blackmails a little girl into lying about it, tries to force his uncle's desk in search of important military information, and uses every means of whining, ingratiation and deceit at his young command to get the members of the family against one another and to wreck the prospective marriage, it begins to become clear even to those who wish him well that Hitler's Bad Boy is an abysmally different species from Peck's. Indeed...