Word: ruse
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...representations to the U. S. State Department, claiming that Factor's abduction was a ruse under which he was making an escape to Mexico in order to avoid extradition to England, where charges resulting from the $7,000,000 coup are pending. But Jake the Barber was neither in Oklahoma, Virginia, Florida or Mexico. He never left Illinois. An unnamed friend turned over $50,000 to some unnamed men in an automobile, reputedly at Hinsdale, western Chicago suburb. After twelve days in captivity. Factor was released at La Grange, 111., three blocks from the police station. His clothes were...
...moral: There is a purpose underlying the wiles of women. Innocent little Denyse (daughter of Mario's best cliente) works Mario into her toils, and meekly proposes that he marry her after divorcing his wife. Aline, aware of all, saves Mario, their home, and the situation by a ruse, so that the couple is enabled at the end to live happily ever after amidst a brood of children and fake scenery...
...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...