Word: knave
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General Motors Coach buses, led the attack. "Behind this deal," shrilled El Mundo, "is a rapacious promoter internationally known for his misdeeds and crooked deals, a buzzard who presents himself to us disguised as the Holy Ghost, a speculator in shady business, a knave with hands of silk . . . Pawley came to Havana and said: "I have come to exchange the old streetcars for modern buses to benefit the population.' But what he really intends to do is exchange the goat...
...film places the action in a sort of opéra-bouffe Dogpatch in central Europe, in Napoleonic times. Kaye is not the knave of Gogol's play but a good-hearted rube. A half-starved outcast from a medicine show, he is mistaken by the crooked mayor (Gene Lockhart) and his henchmen-relatives for Napoleon's feared inspector general traveling incognito. Then, hardly grown into his splendid Techncolored uniform and the hungry affections of the mayor's wife (Elsa Lanchester), Kaye becomes a cat's-paw and fall guy for the scoundrelly medicine-show boss...
...There is freedom, however, to debate governmental policies and discuss programs-but within limits," Mather explained. "Anyone who proclaims that Tito is a knave or a nitwit is going to land in jail in 24 hours...
...whole affair at Seattle has the macabre air of the trial of the knave of hearts in Alice's Wonderland. Dr. Allen invents interpretations; Miss Thompson and Mr. Smith sit in the Jury Box, busily scribbling "due process" on their slates; and the rest of the press shout "off with their heads." But while Alice's dream of the knave's trial vanished, we may find the nightmare of the University of Washington spreading to legislators and trustees all over the country...
...envisioned ideal state of happiness becomes in actuality a totalitarian government ruling in the most autocratic manner. It may be that we are abetting Red propaganda every time we use the term "Communist." . . . A person in our country who favors Russia and its ideology must be either a knave or a fool, and the Communists themselves must have their dupes and stooges as well as their helpless victims. Let's aid the cause of democracy in the U.S. and abroad by developing an authentic, descriptive word...