Word: ruse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shops unrecognized. When he tried to inspect the Habsburg Treasures, an unimpressed attendant told him to come back at an hour when they would be open to the public. The reason why General Goring was thus dawdling in Vienna turned out afterward to be because of an elaborate ruse devised by the German Minister to the Austrian Republic, scheming Franz von Papen. It was his idea that Goring should as if by chance happen to appear on the Vienna station platform just as Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg was about to depart for Budapest to attend the funeral of Hungarian Premier Julius...
...years. Bolon fell wounded in the first month of the War. His patriotism dimmed by this experience, he deserted in August 1914. Ever since, implacable deserter-hunters of the French Sûreté Nationale have been on his trail. Deserter Bolon, however, had adopted the brilliant ruse of simply going home, never stirring out of his father's attic. Neighbors who have been in and out of his parents' house declared positively last week that none of them had seen him since...
...town of Boom one morning in 1616 to announce that the Duke of Olivares and his battalion plan to spend the night there, the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen are scared out of their wits. Foreseeing a repetition of the bloody invasion of Antwerp, the Mayor suggests a ruse: he will pretend to be dead and the Aldermen, mourning at his bier, will be spared the necessity of resisting the intruders. When the Spaniards arrive, the men of Boom-except a young painter named Peter Breughel, in love with the Mayor's daughter-are nowhere in sight...
Neutral observers could only conclude that the Japanese Government, needing a pretext for further armed encroachment upon China, had subsidized and provided ammunition for General Pai. The ruse continued to work to perfection. General Pai's blasts against Japan touched off all over South China precisely the sort of Chinese popular unrest and baiting of local Japanese needed by spunky little Japanese Premier Koki Hirota as an excuse to intervene. By his orders a Japanese cruiser and six destroyers soon slithered into Amoy "to protect Japanese lives and property." Added a Japanese destroyer officer, "We are ready to proceed...
Since the British have always been realists, they cannot fail to see in this proposal anything but the ruse it is. To give Mussolini a free hand, while indefinite peace proposals are made by a disinterested party, would be a form of imperial suicide of which London has not yet been guilty...