Word: ruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheriff found himself unable to make the arrest. The entire Polish community of Scotch Plains joined the conspiracy to warn Crempa of the approach of the sheriff's officers. The sheriff disguised his men as a surveying party. The ruse worked but the neighbors, armed with brooms, rakes and stones, tore Crempa out of the hands of the deputy sheriffs. Crempa sat alertly at a second-floor window of his neat, brown-shingled house, watching the approaches and doing home piecework for another tailor. His son took a job in a riding academy. Crempa's plump, brisk Wife...
...Tickets sold with a rush in Moscow last week as music-loving comrades lined up to buy seats for "the City of Cleveland's Orpheus Male Choir with Claudia Muzio, Richard Crooks, Richard Bonelli and Lawrence Tibbett." When it appeared that the old Soviet ruse of advertising performers who were not even in Russia to spur ticket sales was being worked again, the State Trust for Musical, Stage & Circus Entertainment not only disclaimed all responsibility but blamed Moscow newspapers for not at once detecting and exposing the fraud. "Persons with even rudimentary knowledge," observed the State Trust, "would know that...
...cover her intrigue with the Prince, she married, posing, with the Prince's aid, as his illegitimate daughter. The ruse was successful until in a fit of rage Sophie stupidly disclosed her deception to her husband and was expelled from court. She promptly set to work to get back in. Rebuffed by aristocrats who regarded her with loathing, she found an ally in Louis Philippe, then Duc d'Orleans, who wanted the Prince's wealth left to one of his sons. Brightest of Marjorie Bowen's witty characterizations is that of Louis Philippe, son of Egalite...
...will not be "pure" in the Brattle Street sense. With his usual acumen, he has already ensured against that. For his recipe for poetry is apparently a dash if wit, a sprinkle of imagery, and a pinch of smut. The last condiment is easy to find despite his commendable ruse in transliterating into Greek certain English monosyllables which always arouse Mr. Dirty Mind, the true-born censor. There is a blank page, whose missing text appears only in the holograph edition, and the penny arcade reader may well purchase that--at $99 a copy--if he wants Cummings straight...
...quite definitely the world's anxiety. Democratic France, Britain, and even the diplomatically snobbish United States, may have to worry about the poisonous fumes cast from the body of a dying autocracy. With the international arrangements of Central and Eastern Europe having all the reassuring stability of a charlotte ruse, the end of a definite policy for Poland can do more than rock the boat. And, whatever the world might have thought about Pilsudski's policies, at least they were definite. He built his house quite discreetly upon the foundation of amity with Germany, his next-door neighbor on both...