Word: ruses
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...With Ruse Allen out of the lineup for an indefinite period because of illness, the showing of Bob Gannett in right field against the Quakers was a great consolation. Gannet will start again today, while Jim Sullivan will continue to cover the left garden...
...Sian official for Texas Co., one George Fitch, contributed to the dispute by arriving in Nanking to say that, so far as he knew, the persons principally concerned (Dictator Chiang, Mme Chiang, Brother Soong, Adviser Donald and the Young Marshal) got out of Sian only by a ruse in which they tricked General Yang Fu-cheng, whose troops had high-jacked the kidnapping. Oilman Fitch confirmed that the city of Weinan, which had absolutely nothing to do with the case, had been wiped out and said he thought 400 Chinese in Sian, also bystanders, had been "exe-cuted...
...Austria, press cameramen assigned to the Boy addressed him as such in the following note, according to Associated Press: "Eddie, we want to be with our wives and children by Christmas, but we cannot leave until you come out of your hole." This ruse brought the Boy out of his hole to pose briefly. From London, the horrified Government took telephonic steps to persuade the Boy not to be so Christmas-minded as to agree to issue daily bulletins about himself, an idea the Boy had broached, according to correspondents, so that they could all lgo to their wives & children...
...Horner (Roger Livesey) pretends to be emasculated because his reputation has become such that he is hard put to circumvent the vigilance of jealous husbands. This ruse works well enough in the case of Sir Jasper Fidget, who is only too glad to have such an apparently harmless gallant squire his wife around town, frequent her boudoir. But Mr. Pinchwife, who has brought an artless country wife to London and is in a fine frenzy of determination not to be cuckolded, has not heard the rumor about Mr. Horner and so goes to great lengths to keep him away, finally...
...weakening Nelson's fighting fleet, means ultimate defeat for England, Blake holds out against it. When a letter from the admiral reminds him of their boyhood promise, Blake takes the desperate chance of using his semaphore to flash news of a naval victory which has not happened. The ruse delays the admiralty's plan until Nelson, with his full fleet at his command, has won gloriously and died at Trafalgar. Wounded by jealous Lord Stacy-whose wife is now ready to divorce him-Blake recuperates in time to see his old friend's catafalque...