Word: duped
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...motel so he can earn money even while he sleeps. Yet he is also a man in love and nagged by some decent urges. Actor Heflin fills the character to the last nuance. The woman, ably played by Actress Keyes, is a pathetic, guilt-ridden dupe who craves nothing more than a normal home life...
...appeal to Congress, pamphlets and duels, Lee vainly sought to vindicate his honor after the court-martial. Unhinged by his wrongs, he told friends that Washington planned to have him assassinated. "Great God!" he wrote his sister in 1781, the year before he died, "what a dupe and a victim have I been to the talismanic name of liberty!" But his last delirious words were a fighter's still: "Stand by me, my brave grenadiers...
...typical story of a Communist dupe-and Thomas Mann had shown himself to be only too susceptible to the Communist shell game. The Warsaw Peace Conference had elected Dr. Mann to its presidium in absentia, and Mann had had to cable a protest and his explanation: he had written France's Communist Dr. Joliot-Curie refusing to attend the conference but expressing his sympathy for Joliot-Curie's efforts for peace. Mann had refused to sign the Stockholm petition, but had sent a recorded message to Chicage's Mid-Century Conference for Peace, taken over...
...when asked if he has any friends, replies through his teeth: "My guns." In a scheme to pose as the long-lost son of a wealthy rancher (Charles Bickford), he takes off his shirt twice: first to let a tattoo artist fake a birthmark on his shoulder, later to dupe Bickford with the false credentials...
Bumps & Grinds. There were a few jarring notes. As the operetta's dupe, Eisenstein, Wagnerian Tenor Set Svanholm occasionally staggered like a fugitive from Götterdämmerung. Red-haired Soprano Ljuba (Salome) Welitch sometimes overacted her Rosalinda. Antony Tudor's ballroom ballet was a sour grape. But the singing and acting of the Met's 25-year-old Coloratura Patrice Munsel (as Adele) made up for all of that. Slim, pretty Patrice twice stopped the whole show cold. Her first show-stopping smash, delivered (with the help of new lyrics by Howard Dietz) with...