Word: ruses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This ruse, if successful, may end the curseworthy and costly double feature. For if movie audiences take to featurettes like Tanks (which is merely a stretched-out episode), they may be weaned down to one standard-length feature and an extra-large helping of good, inexpensive shorts. Producer Roach is so hopeful about his new "streamlined features" that he has made five of them, has another block of five on the fire...
...world waited anxiously last week for a word from the most promising source of information about Hess: Winston Churchill, who had promised to explain all to Parliament. But already it was evident that Hess's flight had disconcerted Germany too much for it to be an elaborate ruse; that he was no ordinary turncoat eager to aid his country's enemies, or the British would not have been so puzzled; that Hess's peace plan, if he had one, had not a slender chance of winning acceptance...
...bringing him to work bright and shining. They hired men to tail him nightly, bet him $100 he wouldn't be in shape to work the next day. Never a loose man with a dollar, the comedian couldn't refuse the tempting increment. For a while the ruse worked. But when he returned from a European trip with his wife a few years later, there was no work for him in Hollywood. That was old stuff to Trooper Oakie...
...refuse, however, or become obtuse with muttered phews! or by some simple ruse upset the cruse, in the end I lose...