Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ouverture, First of the Blacks, established in 1801 an independent constitution. He was well under way with a promising period of reconstruction when Napoleon took time to consider his refractory colonies. A swift intelligent military campaign subdued Toussaint's able generals. Toussaint himself was taken unscrupulously by ruse, and imprisoned in France-to be mourned in lines by Wordsworth...
Thomas D. Campbell of Hardin, Mont., was a welcome White House caller. He, farmer on the largest scale in the U. S., assured President Coolidge that the farm "crusade" (see p. 13) was an unjust political ruse and fiction. . . . Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow was an interesting White House caller. The President passed a whole day hearing about Mexico. He called in Secretary of State Kellogg to hear too. . . . Vice President Dawes was an entertaining White House caller. He accompanied 15 other Republican notables to a Coolidge breakfast and made great sport of small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana for wearing...
...AMERICAN?The Earlier Life of Walter H. Page?Burton J. Hendrick?Houghton Mifflin ($5.00). The two-volume life and letters of Walter H. Page, Wartime ambassador to England, were worthy best sellers. That a third volume should now appear, antedating the others in subject matter, suggests the frequent publishing ruse of selling a dull re-hash on the strength of the original success. Nothing of the sort is true in this case, partly because of Burton Hendrick's studied sense of the dramatic, mostly because of the essential fullness of Page's life before he ever thought of ambassadorship. From...
...quarter. One day the mother tells Louise that her father is gravely ill as the result of his daughters conduct, and humbly asks Julien to allow Louise to nurse her father for a few days. Julien consents. At home again, Louise learns that she was the victim of a ruse to separate her from her lover. She chafes at confinement until her father, beside, himself in the rage and disappointment, turns Louise out of his house, cursing all Paris for depriving him of his daughter...
...until last March was the sarcophagus opened. Despite its elaborate concealment, the magnificent array around it and the obvious fact that thieves had never penetrated to it, the sarcophagus was empty. Cheops, having had one experience with thieves -at Dahshur, had evidently carried his ruse of concealment one step beyond extreme caution and hidden his mother's mummy still elsewhere...