Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patrick Hamilton's play will neither be included in anthologies of English drama nor win a Critics' Award. It doesn't pretend to be a major work of art. But, for chilliness and clever acting, it's the best evening you'll spend for a long time...
When a pitcher seems well on the way toward hurling a no-hit game, players and fans go to outlandish lengths to avoid mentioning it. They keep fingers crossed and pretend nothing unusual is occurring. It is an old superstition; they are loth to do anything that might change luck...
...said: "Our differences remain. We shall not pretend that they are already resolved into unity or into harmony, but we take our stand on the common faith of Christendom...
Starlet Barrymore plays the daughter of Star Kay Francis. The plot requires Diana to don a middy blouse and pretend she is twelve in order to keep from her mother's suitor (John Boles) the fact that Mother Francis is fortyish. In the complicated course of this deception, Diana also fools a charming young man (Robert Cummings), who buys her roller skates and ice-cream sodas, tries to teach her to skate before his normal eyesight asserts itself and he realizes she is old enough to be his wife...
...diplomatic hesitation, the U.S. told Vichyfrance last week that a spade is a spade. When flabby, sinister Pierre Laval protested to the U.S. Chargé d'Affairs, S. Pinkney Tuck, that the U.S. bombings of Rouen and Havre were "odious aggression," Mr. Tuck did not even pretend to wait for an answer from Washington. Then & there, he told Laval that the U.S. did not aim to kill Frenchmen but all factories in Occupied France operated by or for Germany "would be bombed at every opportunity in the future...