Word: ruse
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Rearing the healthy little animal is comparatively easy. Destroying Lottie, the handsome, ignorant grown animal, is difficult indeed. The ruse of giving Lottie rein in a cheap flirtation fails through Ralph's weak forgiveness. Mrs. Bascomb lives away for some years, torn free. When she returns things are worse than before. Small Dids is "on the town," getting tough while Lottie joyrides; Ralph is still grubbing...
...container which smells of liquor is sufficient evidence to incriminate a man on the charge of having possessed liquor. This does away with the ruse of emptying liquor into a sink when a policeman raps on the door...
Echinus told Sturly also of Love; but after Sturly had mated for several years, even that illusion was manifest. It was not communion with God, but merely Life's ruse for perpetuating the species. Sturly grew...
...future. Thought he: "The Monarchists and the Republicans are evenly divided. In order to obtain some measure of Socialist support, I must have a Socialist colleague." He chose as Minister of the Interior Herr Severing, who has long acted in that capacity under ex-Minister Braun. But the ruse did not work. Last week the Diet refused a vote of confidence by 221 to 219 votes. Minister Marx became ex-Minister Marx. Prussia again lacked a government...
...showed her married to a British business man whose thoughts were ever far away among his ledgers. They showed her annoyance at their resultant domestic doldrums. They showed her escape to a London luncheon with a less worthy but more perceptive character. They showed that this was all a ruse which, divulged discreetly to the husband, proved to him that his wife must, after all, be included in his interests...