Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gypsy. For another, he never told lies, so that rather than commit the wholesale falsification necessary to give his wife a divorce, he pretended to kill himself (he was not brave enough for real suicide) so that she could marry a devoted, comfortable suitor. When Fedya's ruse was discovered years later and he learned that, depending on the courts, he had either to remarry his wife or be exiled with her to Siberia for bigamy, he did find the courage to shoot himself...
...WISE CHILD?History of a funny ruse...
...Slovene people as a whole would be applauding Royalty's choice of a Slovene name for the baby Prince. Such a trick is typical of King Alexander, would only work of course on a people as simple as his peasants. Time after time His Majesty has employed the old ruse with success. Notably he waited to proclaim himself Dictator until the onset of a rustic holiday which, for a week every year, renders most of the peasants in Jugoslavia convivially tipsy, broadly complacent at whatever their Serb King...
...affection. But Gregory nobly yearns for the stabilizing responsibilities of true matrimony. Therefore he announces his forthcoming marriage to a fictitious woman. Mollie is shocked, furious, broken. But while the chimes are ringing for Gregory's marriage he appears in a top hat, gaily tells Mollie of his ruse and whisks her to the altar...
...Aaron Burr founded it by ruse in 1799. The older Bank of New York & Trust Co., was founded 1784 by Alexander Hamilton, whom Burr later killed in a duel...