Word: plot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfonso Fors, head of the.judicial police, announced that a plot had been discovered to assassinate General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of the Cuban Republic since 1925, and to plunge the country in civil warfare with the idea of bringing about U. S. intervention. A certain Dr. Alejandro Vergara Leonard was named head of the conspiracy, and he and nine followers were arrested and flung into the grey, 18th century Castillo del Principe...
...Anthony Asquith, 26, member of an English family which has already done much to entertain the U. S.* Few Asquiths, however, have used their wits as seriously as young Anthony in his account of a London subway guard who falls in love with what Britishers call a shopgirl. A plot, somewhat too complicated for strong drama, includes a rival lover who burns another girl to death against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just to be near him. In spite of amateurish handling of details...
...scene, which is even less than one has on the stage. All sense of tempo, a quality which has been highly developed lately, is completely lost due to the necessity for close-ups as the characters speak. And the last and worst sin in this production is an illogical plot which must be obvious to even the least critical person...
...international intrigue, later 20th century, Author Richard Keverne poaches on E. Phillips Oppenheim's preserves. Mystery runs so high, so thick, so fast, that it is guaranteed by a sealed ending?money back if you can resist breaking the seal of The Havering Plot (Harper...
...similarity between this plot and hard-boiled Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is great but not suspicious. Ida A. R. Wylie, author of Children of Storm, The Mad Busman, has literary stature, would never stoop to pilfer...