Word: knavishness
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...Save the King. Anyone who did sounded as if he were instructing the Almighty in the tone of an irate football coach bawling out a quarterback between halves. It goes: O Lord our God, arise, Scatter his enemies And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks; On Thee our hopes we fix; God save...
...those who wondered where Father Bing O'Crosby went when he walked off into the night, Leo McCarey has provided an answer, hopefully attempting to repeat his former success. But his often knavish imitation gives his audience the uneasy feeling of seeing the same movie twice, while his efforts to differ in details lead him to inconsistency...
Frustrate their knavish tricks...
...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...