Word: doublecrosses
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...Killers. Hemingway's short story blown up into a complex plot of thievery, violence and doublecross (TIME, Sept...
...assume he is a great Christian gentle man, prepared to doublecross his Italian and German friends without the slightest hesitation." The bewildered little man who frequently appears with the Colonel is the cartoonist's conception of himself...
...Germany there is a cynical saying that Schacht has managed to doublecross all save two of his intimates: one of the two is Hitler; the other is Jeidels. Schacht gave Jeidels the high sign in time for him to leave Germany with his family before the great pogrom of 1938 began...
...Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks to forget. Young love burgeons while gyp and doublecross are rampant all around, practiced by the proprietor (Boris Kar-loff), his wife (Dorothy Revier), her lover, the guests and Lew Ayres's mother (Hedda Hopper). Besides the burgeoning juveniles, only an honest policeman (Robert Emmett O'Connor) and a ratiocinative Negro doorman stay sweet & simple. While Ayres & Clarke prattle...
Through the coffee houses of gossiping Vienna spread a rumor that handsome Prince von Starhemberg, fired by the triumphs of his friend, "Handsome Adolf" Hitler, in Germany, has a Heimwehr plot up his sleeve to doublecross the Seipel group which has given him the Ministry of Interior, hopes to manage the election of so many Heimwehr men that he himself will become No. 1 Austrian...