Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absurd," snorted Leader Lewis in an amazing New Year's Eve broadcast in which he defied virtually the whole of U. S. Big Business, "for such a corporation to pretend that its policies are settled locally. Every one knows that decisions as to wages, hours and other conditions of employment are made at a central point for all the plants controlled by General Motors...
...respectable middle-class family, Chesterton lived long enough to admire even the hypocrisies of his Victorian household. His father was a real estate agent and surveyor, an ironic individual who reminded his son of a character by Dickens. One of the elder Chesterton's idiosyncrasies was to pretend that he knew a great deal about flowers, gravely lecturing to lady visitors about a "sprig of wild bigamy." When he identified a flower as "Bishop's Bigamy," even his innocent listeners grew suspicious. "Perfectly happy at the bottom of the class," Gilbert Chesterton dreamed through his pleasant schooling...
...Star for a Night" is an inconsequential bit about exaggerated filial devotion. Claire Trevor and Evelyn Venable, both rather neutral young women, pretend to be riding high so that their mother back in Austria will accept money to be spent to her blind eyes. When mamma comes to America the deception is a little harder, and then when she regains her sight there is the utmost consternation as to how to pull the wool over the freshly-cured-eyes. It's pretty sugary up to this point, but when Mother Jane Darwell discovers the fraud, things get stickier than ever...
...cunning of the men who pretend to have the ball but who haven't appeals to me. In Australia, we call that trick "selling your opponent a dummy...
...morning in 1616 to announce that the Duke of Olivares and his battalion plan to spend the night there, the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen are scared out of their wits. Foreseeing a repetition of the bloody invasion of Antwerp, the Mayor suggests a ruse: he will pretend to be dead and the Aldermen, mourning at his bier, will be spared the necessity of resisting the intruders. When the Spaniards arrive, the men of Boom-except a young painter named Peter Breughel, in love with the Mayor's daughter-are nowhere in sight, but Boom's ladies...