Word: ruses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play tells of a Swedish cavalry captain whose ruthless wife-in a deep sexual struggle for domination-malignly and methodically drives him insane. Her final ruse is to obsess him with the idea that he is not the father of their child. Strindberg is himself obsessed here, seeing all villainy in the world's wives, as the mad Lear saw it in the world's daughters. But if an unbalanced man, Strindberg was a far from impotent artist: he punctuated the play with flashes of insight and jabs of feeling...
...President believed that the U.S. could wean the Soviet Union "away from dictatorship and tyranny in the direction of a free, tolerant, and peaceful society." At best it was a naive hope for a man come to trade with a proved champion of Lenin's precept: "Use any ruse, cunning, unlawful method, evasion, concealment of truth...
Three men will gain their University boxing titles unopposed. Ruse Bath is the only entrant at 125 pounds, Charley Weiss the lone fighter at 130, and Fred Ravreby the only heavyweight. Weiss, boxing for Kirkland, won the College title in the House tournament, and Ravreby has already annexed the freshman heavyweight title...
...Mexicali Ruse. In any case, as the committee knew beforehand, neither Mrs. Roosevelt nor anybody else on its "prominent persons" list had actually been of any help to Eisler. He got into the U.S. late in 1939 on a visa obtained from a "sleepy" consul at Mexicali, Mexico. The consul, Wyllis Myers, whom the committee did not bother to subpoena, issued the visa without bothering to check his files on Eisler...
Hummon hollered like a bull in fly time. "The Rome case was brought as a ruse by agreement between all parties to it," he said. "I am informed that as soon as the case was presented to him the judge reached into his pocket and pulled out an opinion he had already written...