Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, "this is Gershwin. . . . No, no, it's too hot. ... . I'm going away for the weekend. ... I can't see anyone" Smiling, he hung up the receiver, tossed a last striped shirt into his bag. It was sometimes a nuisance, but he could not honestly pretend that it bored him, this growing public interest in his movements, his past, his plans...
...concluded: "I declare that my Government, conscious of the obligations imposed by international law, is determined to comply with them, but in no way it shall admit that a Government of any nation may pretend to create a privileged situation for its nationals in the country, nor shall it easier accept any foreign interference contrary to the rights of sovereignty of Mexico...
...interesting enough, compelling to the mind; and the soil she is set in- Negroes, cowpeas, broom sedge- smells properly. But no amount of fertilizing will remove the agricultural tag: "Hardy Lady Farmer in the South, transplanted." The Author. Miss Ellen Glasgow of Richmond, Va., now 51, tries not to pretend. Her materials, as early as The Voice of the People (1900) and The Miller of Old Church (1911), have been the roots and sap of human experience, treated not clinically but with a gracious hardihood. If it is in the romantic vein to regard fortitude and other sombre virtues...
...reading the fashion page of last month's Vanity Fair. It would do no good to rush upon her in full undress: she was old and callous and stood her ground like a man. Neither would it avail to crawl out the window, or ring the fire alarm, or pretend to drown in the tub. But now, by a system of secret signals, the distressed Innocent calls another member of the club, who enters with a shot gun or a new Vanity Fair. If with the former, the goody is shot in her tracks. If with the latter, the Cooperating...
...well-known charge of overemphasis on outside activities Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, adds the more serious charge of collegiate insincerity. Schools and colleges, he says, pretend to do more than they can really accomplish, and hence the real indictment against them is their insincerity...