Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favor of participation) "The Paris meetings will result in requests for help so high that the U.S. Congress will throw up its hands. Then Europe, disillusioned and bitter, will turn to us. So let us play along with the Paris conference, get the requests up as high as possible, and put the blame for failure...
...Consort. Albert was the only modern precedent* for the role Philip would play in British life. Although he had no constitutional power of his own, Albert exercised enormous influence over British politics by patiently and studiously advising Victoria. A royal husband, he wrote, "should entirely sink his own individual existence in that of his wife. He should aim at no power, shun all contention and continuously and anxiously watch every part of the public business in order to assist and advise...
...years it gathered dust as Sir Arthur and his Sherlock Holmes gathered legend. Finally Sir Arthur's son, Adrian, went poking about and last week the secret was out. The hatbox, announced Adrian, contained unpublished writings by Sir Arthur, including The Crown Diamond, a "hitherto unknown" one-act play about Holmes, and a mysterious manuscript entitled Some Personalia About Mr. Sherlock Holmes. This "unique document," said Adrian cryptically, would "explode the old myths" about Sir Arthur and his great gumshoe...
Whenever someone mentions money, Golfer Bobby Locke's ears sharpen to a point. Would Locke consider taking a $5,000 guarantee to play in Chicago's Tarn O' Shanter tourney? asked the man from Chicago. Would he! Locke put in a hurry-up telephone call to London, broke his date to play in the British Open. He called South Africa, said he wouldn't be home for a while...
...just left. Peggy Cummins, a cockney showgirl who wants to be a lady, blackmails Mature into taking her for a visit to his elegant country mansion. There she hobnobs uneasily with his jealous fiancée (Patricia Medina) and his magnificent old mother (Ethel Barrymore). She also tries to play detective, and falls in love with her main suspect. Next thing she knows, she is in line for the Bible, the moss rose, and the hair's-breadth intervention of Scotland Yard (Vincent Price...