Word: deceits
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...were so loyal, so kind in telling me before others did--no deceit. And yet it was so tenderly conveyed. Then how can I be other than honest. Must I get conventionally drunk and hypocritically paint the town? My friends tell me I'm a fool. Where's your pride, they say. It's lost in abject adoration that will last forever...
...Resolution was defeated primarily because of the astonishingly effective propaganda aroused over the short space of one week-end by those two staunch protectors of one hundred per cent Americanism, Father Coughlin and the Hearst papers. "Joining the court," said the former, "to maintain peace strongly stinks of diplomatic deceit." He was aided no end by the latters' publishing the pictures of Great American Statesmen, accompanied by the question, "Senators, have you forgotten these...
When Sculptor Frederick William MacMonnies was commissioned (in the will of Mrs. Angelina Crane) to fashion a statue of Civic Virtue for Manhattan's City Hall Park, he modeled an upright youth spurning two coiled mermaids who represented Deceit and Disillusion. The unveiling in 1922 caused an unavailing delirium of protests from women's organizations and others which found, in the sex of Disillusion and Deceit and in their proximity to the youth's feet, an affront to womanhood. Glad of an opportunity to have fun, Manhattan newspapers exulted in lavish, impartial ridicule, made the incident...
...will now take a ten-minute recess. during which you will go in person, call on the telephone, write a letter or send a telegram, fully and frankly confessing your most recent deceit, explaining a recent negligence, apologizing for a discourtesy or keeping an overdue promise...
Father Coughlin hurled charge after charge of corruption, deceit and deliberate falsifying of books at the officials of the defunct banks. Furthermore, he fumed, it was doubtful if three of them would escape Federal indictment-Banker-Publisher Stair, former Chairman Wilson W. Mills of First National ("a broken-down lawyer who swapped his profession for the fleshpots of Egypt") and Peter J. Monaghan, a director of Detroit Bankers and its attorney. Special U. S. Assistant Attorney General Pratt, who is also probing the Detroit situation, slyly observed: "Father Coughlin must know more about it than...