Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great was the audience--and by more good fortune did seat aside Miss Williams of "Three Men on a Horse" comedy. A pretty one she is and I did talk to her with great pleasure, all the time her gentleman-friend looking daggers at me which I did pretend...
Like those of the Automobile Show, which precedes it every year, Motor Boat Show pressagents labor under the delusion that their exhibits are recommended largely by novelty. Consequently, last week, they made it their business to pretend that streamlining and comfortable living quarters, principal selling points of motor boats for years, had just been discovered this winter. Actually the main novelties of the show were, as usual, gadgets. Samples...
...standing at his elbow, took a hasty gulp, then drove home his point with an additional turn of Ciceronian rhetoric. As in all State of the Union messages to Congress, President Roosevelt surveyed the world at large, assaying U. S. international relations. Naming no names, the man who Republicans pretend to fear may become a U. S. dictator, said some hard, blunt things about dictatorships which made Italy and Germany wince (see p. 16). Excerpts...
...with hogs, and guinea pigs. You can mate animals experimentally, and by doing a good job of matchmaking for many, many generations you can arrive at a "wellborn" hog and call it a Poland-China, or what not. But that's never been done with people, so why pretend it has? If a family can name its pappies and grandpappies for 300 years back, we call it an "ancient" family. And yet, 300 years amount to only about 12 generations. What is twelve generations, when it comes to breeding? In twelve generations of careful breeding you couldn...
...Manhattan's Town Hall stage one night last week, completely fascinated an audience which was unable to understand a single word she sang. She was Sarah Osnath-Halevy, a Yemenite from Palestine. By singers' standards her husky nasal voice was unimportant. But Sarah Osnath-Halevy does not pretend to formal singing any more than she does to conventional dancing. She is an interpreter of folk songs from her corner of the world. Those she presented last week were Persian, Arabian, Yemenite, Schabazy, Sephardic, Felahi. Whatever they were she made them invariably exciting by her intonations, her subtle gestures...