Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sitting here on a soft spring afternoon by the side of the Neckar I could pretend that nothing had changed since I was here fifteen years ago; Heidelberg, like Marburg, Bamberg, and several other smaller cities in Germany remained almost untouched by the mass destruction of the allied armed forces. But it could only be pretending...
...Universal-International), an adaptation of Betty MacDonald's cackle-happy best-seller about a city couple who learn to run a poultry farm, will probably be just as popular as the book. Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, who pretend to be the distraught pioneers, are sure-fire box-office comedians. And the show is rife with sure-fire laughs...
Patterson does not pretend to do the farming. He lets the caretaker and his wife do the chores. "The extent of my help," he gags, "is when I hold a chicken while someone doses it with an eye dropper." Usually he spends his time horseback riding, fishing in his lake or playing catch with his son. When mink began to eat his fish recently, the caretaker trapped the mink, and they are being made into a neckpiece for Mrs. Patterson...
...last-named offers in Professor Schumpeter one of the most colorful and learned figures of the entire Faculty, and the subject material is incalculably important to all who pretend to take notice of the affairs of our divided world...
...began when Van Johnson came to town. Val, a copy girl being tried as a picture-caption writer, persuaded an elderly friend to pretend to be a Johnson fan. Then Val talked City Editor Clem Lane into doing a story on "Van's oldest admirer...