Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps some of you men pretend to think that Russia is a Paradise. I shall call your bluff! If I can find one solitary man, at present unemployed, who will agree to go to Russia and live there for two years, I myself will pay for his passage and for that of his family...
...Winn of Manhattan wrote letters to Dr. E. A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia, to Dr. Henry Louis Smith, President of Washington and Lee, to John W. Davis and other noted southern gentlemen. He stated in no uncertain terms that, though he did not pretend to be an art critic, he had seen pictures of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, and that Sculptor Lukeman's figures did not look anything like them. Dr. Alderman replied: "I think the Jackson figure thoroughly unsatisfactory. It does not suggest Stonewall Jackson to me in the slightest...
...salient feature of the Harvard-Princeton game is not so difficult to find as it is difficult to phrase. Tolerant people might pretend that it was the heady passing of Caulkins, the running of slippery Slagle, or dauntless Dignan, or the doings of an unheard-of Princeton back named Prendergast, who-sent into the game in the last five minutes-carried the ball ten times (almost in succession), and gained 89 yards. But such statements could only be evasions. The salient feature of the Harvard-Princeton game was the doltish performance of the Harvard eleven. Score: Princeton 36, Harvard...
...last we have a World Court with forty-seven adherents and lacking only the United States to give it full prestige. Let us not talk about creating some substitute Court and let us not pretend that the so-called "Old Hague-Tribunal" is a Court. It is only a list of names on paper! There never was any other World Court than the Court of International Justice at The Hague, and the other nations of the world would never even consider disbanding that Court to please those few United States Senators who talk so absurdly of creating something of their...
...Leaving that aside, I have my own interests and grievances as a citizen. My wife suffered from laming traumatic dislocation for eight years. Thanks to the obsolete training maintained by the General Medical Council, registered surgeons were unable to correct it. They did not pretend to. Their final verdict was, 'You must go to Barker.' But the General Medican Council said, 'If you go to that blackleg you shall howl for it, as we will ruin any man who dares administer an anesthetic.' And in fact the operation, which was completely successful, was performed without anesthetic...