Word: deceits
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...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...
...York, where once was Washington's headquarters; she drove her gay coach-and-four through the gaping streets of Saratoga Springs in the heyday of its glory; she built up a fancy fairy-tale of gentility to account for her origin and bulwarked it with cunning lies and deceit. But she never became really respectable. And who shall blame her? At all events her picture, in all this historic frame, glows astonishingly meteoric and lifelike and hangs smiling in the timeless, inglorious gallery of the Du Barrys, the Maintenons, the Pompadours...
...DECEIT-Barklie McKee Henry-Small, Maynard...
...Henry '24, captain of the University crew and second marshal of the Senior class, has joined the ranks of the younger novelists. According to an announcement received yesterday by Mr. N. H. White '20, manager of the publishing house of Small, Maynard and Co., Inc., Henry's first novel, "Deceit", has been accepted by his company for publication and will be ready for sale by the middle of next month...