Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, the hero, a New York minister who says what he thinks; is ejected from office for his attitude towards his rich parishioners. Needless to say the latters' guilty consciences are responsible for the deed, but the chances are, even if his enemies were as innocent as they pretend to be, that he would have been expelled in any case. No man likes to be slandered, truthfully or otherwise...
...around without the use of legs. What our grandchildren are going to do with their legs we are not sure. Certainly they will be an encumbrance, and it will take more than two generations of evolution to dispense with them. Perhaps they will all cover them up and pretend they have none, as women used to do. --The Portland Oregonian...
...have by no means reached the point of satiety, and sincerely hope that the author who is, by the way, a Harvard graduate of the Class of 1915, will not make this his sole adventure in this field of fiction. Frankly it is not, nor does it pretend to be, an inspiring book. You do not turn the last page with a fierce concentration, nor, having finished, filing the volume across the room with a tensely muttered "God!" and stride out to lift the Universe. "But on the other hand, you can not easily put it down until you have...
...Cross does not pretend to care for the ex-service men's families as such, but it does take care of the ex-service disabled man and his family, until such a time as his claim is established, until he is receiving hospital care or vocational training, and until his compensation has come through from the Government. The Government can do nothing for a man until he has established his claim and it often takes many months to do this. As time goes on it becomes increasingly difficult to connect up disability with a man's service. The Red Cross...
...appears that the East has again gone the West one better. The Chinese propose to junk their navy in order to pay their officers. We propose, on the other hand, to junk our officers to pay for the navy we are allowed to retain. While the Chinese do not pretend that they are contemplating their changes through any love for the World Peace dream, the plan has at least the merit of fairness. A destroyer that may happen to escape the general demolition will hardly be capable of rejoicing in its immunity, nor will those that are junked feel...