Word: ruses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England listeners with bootleg sets are caught and forced to pay their tax by an adroit ruse. Science has evolved no means of detecting a listening set, but Scotland Yard has evolved a van full of impressive looking gadgets. This vehicle rumbles about, stopping here & there at random. "Our detector indicates that perhaps you have a wireless," a courteous bobby tells an English householder who is paying no tax. "May we inspect your premises?" Premises are inspected until sooner or later a bootleg receiver is found, and Scotland Yard scores again with its purely psychological detector...
...Great Flirtation (Paramount). A Hungarian actor (Adolphe Menjou), unduly proud of his ability, boasts that he could not play badly if he tried. He marries an actress (Elissa Landi), is jealous of her, sneers at her mediocre mummery. In New York, when through a ruse she has a chance to make a hit. Menjou tries to spoil the play by "mugging." His wife deserts him for a young playwright. Menjou disappears, grows nobly poor and seedy. Wobbling between comedy and sentiment, The Great Flirtation is a raised eyebrow, uncertain and unalluring. Typical shot: the last, in which Menjou and Landi...
...RUSE OF THE VANISHED WOMEN- Val Gielgud-Crime Club ($2). Two branches of the Secret Service, Scotland Yard, and the well-meaning amateur skip about England and France, seeking a kidnapped girl-with many hidden intentions...
...would require another petition and under the rules the bill could not be brought up until the second Monday in May (May 14, too close to expected adjournment for any likelihood of passage). Undeterred, the advocates of the bill, led by Michigan's McLeod who called the ruse "one of the rawest things I've ever heard of," completed their petition, hoped to force its consideration in spite of the trick played on them. They even circulated for signature a manifesto announcing that they would not allow Congress to adjourn until the bill had been voted...
...organization known as Tammany Society. With a fine show of public spirit, Aaron Burr promoted a water system for the city. In the charter for his Manhattan Co. he inserted a clause permitting it to engage in "moneyed transactions." A few of the people's representatives suspected a ruse but Burr talked vaguely of "trade with the Indies" and the charter was granted. Manhattan Co. promptly opened a banking business which it still carries on at 70 branches throughout New York. For the first 100 years of its existence Bank of New York remained the biggest institution...