Word: provocateur
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...TIME, July 22, 1929). After a trial somewhat embarrassing internationally, in which Reporter Knickerbocker was star witness for the prosecution, M. Orloff was convicted of forgery, sentenced to jail. Rather surprisingly, Defense Attorney Walter Jaffe said of Witness Knickerbocker after the trial: "I shall never call his an agent provocateur again. I shall call him spiritus rectus: the Upright Spirit of the trial...
What happened later to change Herr Jaffe's mind is not recorded. But in Berlin last week Reporter Knickerbocker won a court injunction, forerunner of a libel suit, against a book just published: Murderers, Counterfeiters & Provocateurs, by Vladimir Orloff. In a preface to his client's volume, Herr Jaffe stated that M. Orloff had been forced into his crime by an agent provocateur in the person of Reporter Knickerbocker...
...Mussolini is an agent provocateur. . . . In demanding revision of the Treaties he is not sincerely friendly to Germany, but instead is leading Germany on against Italy's enemy, France, for the benefit of Italy...
...perfection. These two made their reputation with the Guild, and they married each other after meeting during the rehearsals of Clarence, nine years ago. Alfred Lunt went to college in Waukesha, Wis. His wife's name is Lynn Lily Louise Lunt. The Street Wolf is a young agent provocateur whose looks lure not-unwilling chippies to a Greenwich Village brothel. It goes on to tell about bordellos, approaches incestuous situations until one sighs for the pure, clear air of Rabelais. Worst of all, it is banally written...
...letter goes on to show that the report brought by "A. P." was sent out by newsagency. "Avala" which is supported by Belgrad government. Avala had to send what was ordered. . . . They featured Radic as provocateur so that his fame and justness of his cause may be demolished in the eyes of the world. I have every reason to believe that the contents of my letter are true...