Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife says to her, in effect: "I think your husband married you for money. I will flirt with him and we shall see." Her advances distress the stupid husband; his "pal" gives him this advice: "Your wife's friend is not flirting with you, she is kidding you. Pretend to be taken in and see how far she will go. In the meantime, I will make moves toward your wife." As might be expected, misunderstandings arise. Animated only by the mutations of these the plot flickers on with the irritating and mechanical regularity, of a grindstone twirling slowly...
...sell bonds, put on weight as soon as they leave, and who appear at the halfway post, vigorous, talkative, ingratiating, and purring (some hours after the market has closed), with pleasure over ice & soda. It is an outward resemblance only, because Robert Clarkson possesses the importance which these popinjays pretend. He did not go to college at all but left a good school for his first inconspicuous position. When the U. S. entered the late War, he was already a partner in a newly organized brokerage house; when he came out of the navy, where he had been an ensign...
...wrote the jokes. Too often they are not jokes at all but matter like "I'm not a menial, if you get what I menial." There are inevitably excellent Tiller girls and a scattering of capable supporters and a plot about a man who had to pretend he was husband and father to inherit wealthy grandfather's gold. Nearly everyone agreed that Miss Lillie's surroundings are superfluous. Yet when she is in view contentment spreads ; especially when she upsets the dinner service and makes her exit wrapped nobly in the tablecloth...
...Story. It is an illogical but not totally unfortunate circumstance that, with the aid of beauty, the most stupid woman may successfully pretend to possess a civilized intelligence. Claire Ambler, though beautiful, was not entirely stupid; the ego-centripetal activity of her mind was doubly painful because of the artificiality it first produced and then criticized. But the men who buzzed around her, like bees around a blossom, did not understand this unhappy virtue; they were content to adore Claire Ambler, forgetting in their own egotism, to value hers...
...lips, that broken laughter and word-fumbling by which Miss Lord intensifies hopelessness. O. P. Heggie, with pursed smile, elusive spectacles and amiable absentmindedness, is her dreamy father. In the epilog, kept at opposite ends of a bare table by her prison's regulations, they still try to pretend to gether, try to laugh "that such a thing should happen to people like...