Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onstage exits were as important as the abrupt, deadpan departures of Critic George Jean Nathan from his aisle seat. If that departure came (as it did all too often) at the end of the second act, financial disaster loomed ahead. For his abrasive wit in demolishing flimflam and fraud, his impish pride in prejudice, and not least for his ability to hone a sharper line than most of the playwrights he panned, slight (5 ft. 7 in., 130 1bs.), white-thatched First Nighter Nathan was one of Broadway's most feared and lonely figures. In a rain of newspaper...
...Catholic Church: "There is a failure of the churches to reach out and seize the opportunity which exists. Segregation in the congregation enhances segregation on the streets. We segregate our housing projects by income. We drive out the more successful members, and we end up by encouraging concealment and fraud. No wonder our children are in trouble...
...said that he felt miserable about the whole thing. Added he: "My mistake was to let her rise. The only thing she cared about was fan mail and publicity-not about the show. Friday may well have been her last time on the show. I'm not a fraud. I won't say nicely and politely that yes, she will come back from time to time. What does she want? Her own show and more money. Well, she had her own show right on our show. This is the greatest overbuilding job I've ever done...
...heart of the matter is," Dulles went on, "are you going to have a meeting that is likely to accomplish something? Or is it proposed to have a meeting which would only be a spectacle? . . . We do not want to be a party to what would be a fraud or a hoax...
Last week the talk of literary Germany was a Darmstadt professor's painstakingly documented debunking of that myth. The crude myth of the racist Nietzsche, argued Professor Karl Schlechta in his new edition of the seer's works, was the consciously perpetrated fraud of his sister, guardian and sole literary executrix, the late Frau Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche...