Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sang, while a lovelorn monk pursued her. What should a monk have to do with so great, so good a lady? Ah, he was trying to save her soul from hellfire, for in the play she was not good at all. She was Maria Jeritza (Baroness Von Popper) pretending to be Thais (famed harlot) at the season's first performance of the opera of that name. Now it is not difficult for a courtesan to pretend to be a great lady. The best courtesans are said to give a certain number of hours each day to the practice...
...Walter Page, before the War, was able to see that this great Empire, owing to its conscious diversity, was likely to yield more and more to a compact Empire. It is no use to pretend that America does not at this time profoundly influence us and the Empire. We knew we have yielded the position of leadership to America in connection with the work designed for the higher service of humanity...
...most from the unrestricted trade in Chinese opium, and that Japanese merchants now handle most of this dope trade, having replaced the British as the foremost traffikers. This disingenuous attitude of quibbling over means of enforcement will not blind the world to the fact that Japan, while anxious to pretend cooperation with western nations in a humanitarian program, is at bottom unwilling to forfeit the commercial advantage which she draws from the continuance of the opium evil...
Harvard indifference, of which people pretend to be proud, has gone to the furthest limits has sunk to the lowest depths it could possibly reach. To think that the first of the Big Three games should come off this Saturday and only half the Union hall full! It is a deplorable thing to think that our students who come from the four corners of the globe to share Harvard's scholastic prestige cannot show their support and admiration of that team which sat so woefully, yes, I even dare say, disgusted, on the platform...
...bond in their efforts to dispel the popular superstition regarding the great, strong, silent man in the White House and in their work of putting the infamous record of the last administration in its true light. It is futile to direct effort to shadowy issues. It is childish to pretend that a likeness exists between Mr. Davis and Mr. Coolidge. It is as well to compare black with white as to liken Mr. Davis, one of this country's most capable lawyers and one of the most able men ever sent as Ambassador to Great Britain, with the man whose...