Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agent obeyed, found Mile Salzmann to be aged 21, pretty, romantic. The agent also was young. Under the Swiss moon he made love to his victim. Presently he knew that "Esther" meant "shipment"; "uncle'' meant "Customs officer." "Money" therefore meant a bribe. He had unearthed a smuggling plot which had permitted at least $1,000,000 in watches to enter the U. S. free of duty, defrauding the Government of $350,000 a year...
Last week, darkly, like so many Guy Fawkeses, the Conservative conspirators sprang their plot. Scheduled on the evening's calendar were three thoroughly unimportant bills. Seeing that only a handful of somnolent numbers dotted the Conservative benches, several Liberals crept off to bed. An uncomfortable premonition made Prime Minister MacDonald instruct Labor whips to excuse no Labor M. P.'s until the evening's business was finished...
...complete ignorance of the plot, Dr. Edward Leslie Burgin, Liberal M. P., had just moved an amendment to the Income Tax Law exempting from tax corporation profits spent for repairs or the mechanical expansion of plants. Cried tricky David Lloyd George, Liberal leader...
...devisers have stuck to their model, than it would have been if they had depended on independent inspiration. It is a War picture dealing with aviators, but the usual framework of such efforts has been drawn into a tense believable story, without a woman in the cast, without formal plot, without undue sentimentality. The action concerns Richard Barthelmess' dislike for a superior officer who seems to have a talent for sending young aviators to death needlessly. When he is moved into the officer's job he finds that he has to do the same thing in much...
...gentleman blotto," is a Prohibition agent whose wife runs a speakeasy. Beautiful but thick Annabel Cloy imagines herself a poet, and is overjoyed when Casanova, pretending to be a publisher, says he will print her Poems of Passion, is enraged when she discovers his duplicity. From this out, the plot becomes more and more revue-worthy. In the end Casanova, in a vain attempt to regain Annabel's affections, goes deliberately to jail by selling liquor on the street. His example becomes popular...