Word: pretended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this mad hour is perhaps the most encouraging sign of the times that this world is not yet lost. This sign must endure. Therefore, hold fast! Listen to your teachers with a healthy skepticism. Remember that they don't know half so much as they seem to know, or pretend to know. They were mistaken last time; why should they be right this time? John Haynes Holmes...
...advances the good of their country, has done an act beyond the Constitution." He said he would go to Congress as a guardian who has invested the money of a ward might go to him when he came of age and say: "I did this for your good; I pretend no right to bind you; you may disavow me, and I must get out of the scrape as I can; I thought it my duty to risk myself...
...parents distracted and alarmed by the Shadow and Superman, few radio programs are as welcome as CBS's Let's Pretend. Adapting fairy tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rumpelstiltskin, Let's Pretend is an unsponsored show. More popular with children than many of its murder & mayhem rivals, it attracts some 1,000 letters weekly...
Scripteuse for Let's Pretend is blonde, broad-beamed Nila Mack, who used to be an actress, now lives with a Persian cat in Manhattan. Last week Storyteller Mack celebrated her tenth anniversary in radio by directing The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins for the Columbia Workshop. It was the 1,304th show that she had had a hand in. First, in 1930, was Sinbad the Sailor, with a cast of grownups and children. Dissatisfied with the adults in Sinbad, Miss Mack decided to round up a group of untrained small fry, to teach by her own methods...
Sometimes it is possible to pretend that a character is knocking around the house, even though he doesn't open his mouth. Gertrude Berg, who turns out The Goldbergs for CBS, has done this with a character named Rosie for the past five weeks. Rosie has apparently been in the next room, or on the front stoop, during the performance of The Goldbergs, but actually Roslyn Silber who plays the part has been in Hawaii...