Word: outwit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to outwit the Doctor, the U. S. Government, after a study of his methods, concluded that the various kinds of Schacht marks amounted to a German Government subsidy of goods shipped to the U. S. and retaliated with countervailing duties under the Tariff Act of 1930. For the benefit of U. S. customs inspectors German exporters were required to swear to statements of the amount of any German subsidy they received. Whether President Roosevelt knew it or not, under Nazi law it is high treason to divulge such German economic secrets to a foreigner, much less to swear...
...energetic rivalry. Curt Devlin first gets an advantage by identifying the mystery woman in the case from the perfume on the dead man's coat. Then Ellen Garfield catches up by finding the woman's whereabouts by means of a laundry mark. Finally their efforts to outwit each other lead to a sequence in which, before the jury has announced its verdict in the trial, the presiding judge is flabbergasted to find it prematurely bannered in both the Star and the Express, in headlines which flatly contradict each other...
Crotchety old women who outwit strong men have become a cinema staple. To hers (named Aunt Melissa) Miss Collier brings a patrician nose, a rattly voice and a formidable vivacity out of the fine tradition of the theatre of 30 years...
...ball in Brussels than when discharging his military duties. Nonetheless, when he hears that "Boney" is advancing on the city, the Iron Duke drags himself from the dance floor. He wins the battle calmly, sheds a brief tear for his fallen officers, moves on to Paris to outwit Metternich, the Tsar, Blücher and the King of Prussia. All this time, he is carrying on a mild flirtation with a young and flighty matron. When the peace of Europe is attended to, Wellington ends his philanderings, returns to London, gives his Eton sons pats on the head and winds...
...John Stewart Baker, 40, chairman of the second oldest private bank in New-York, $502,000,000 Bank of the Manhattan Co. Like his father Stephen before him he was president of the bank at 34, and his great-grandfather helped Aaron Burr outwit Alexander Hamilton by chartering the bank as a water company in 1799. Mr. Baker's Manhattan Co. owned New York Title until December 1932 when it was divorced from the parent holding company. Mr. Baker is not related to George Fisher Baker Jr., also a well-known Wall Street banker...