Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clerk in a bakery not far from the bank. When Bunnie saw her coming down the street he dropped his eyes, a curious little thrill ran over him, and every now and again he coughed. Some days he was early and would have missed her, but for the ruse that he had lost a shilling at the last corner and was forced to turn back...
...announced that .his old Milford medical question box would be on the air daily. Last week he conducted his radio clinic, sending patients to Milford Drug Co. for prescriptions, inviting them to Brinkley Hospital in Milford for diagnosis. Mexican & U. S. medical authorities scratched their heads, puzzled over a ruse by which clever Gland Grafter Brinkley had apparently removed himself from the jurisdiction of either...
...raucous instructors. They whistled incessantly, "and always the same tunes, and always off the key. Remember that - always off the key. It is important." To order them to be silent was impossible for kindly Professor Shaw. Besides, their reaction might be more strident whistling. He thought of a ruse. For the university daily he wrote an article shaming whistlers in general. But the paper did not print it. Last week some New York University students who work as "campus" correspondents for the local dailies were be wailing the scantiness of university news. Professor Shaw dug up and gave them...
Albert Einstein's sartorial negligence still drives his wife to tears. Her latest wail: Under pretense of being a guest at tea, a friendly tailor measured the professor's size by sight, made him a suit. When the tailor presented the finished suit and explained the ruse, the professor lost his temper (a rare event), chased the tailor from the Einstein's Berlin apartment, refused to wear the suit. He gives his clothes money to charity. Last week he was vacationing at Caputh near Potsdam, wearing white linen pajamas, no socks, no shoes...
...Hoover was a promoter rather than a mining expert. His salary was $5,000 for mining work, $95,000 as a financial adviser. . . . His English [is] no more precise or pure now than when he flunked this course at Leland Stanford University and was enabled to graduate by a ruse...