Word: knavish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl in a Coffee Pot figuring up her budget; a smalltime crook getting the double-cross from his cronies. Almost without exception his characters are knaves, fools, or a mixture of both. But Author O'Hara edits his copy so cannily that his reports of their knavish or foolish goings-on are arresting...
...laymen. After accepting an invitation to serve at a show the judge is advised to retire into semi-seclusion, as far as dos shows are concerned, until time to enter the ring. Reasons: 1) the indispensable paying spectators will not attend dog shows if they suspect trickery; 2) knavish exhibitors believe all other exhibitors equally bad-intentioned...
Frustrate their knavish tricks...
...longer considered exciting stuff. For revenge is stimulated by rage and rage is too direct and elementary an emotion to interest modern playgoers. Therefore this handsomely apparelled drama about a rich Jew of Württemberg whose virginal daughter is driven to suicide by the approaches of a knavish Duke, and who subsequently causes the Duke's downfall by way of atonement, seems like mechanical puppetry. It is an adaptation by Ashley Dukes of episodes from Lion Feuchtwanger's potent novel Power (Jud Suss) which is extolled by its readers as the rich, devious history of a master...