Word: ruses
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Neutral observers could only conclude that the Japanese Government, needing a pretext for further armed encroachment upon China, had subsidized and provided ammunition for General Pai. The ruse continued to work to perfection. General Pai's blasts against Japan touched off all over South China precisely the sort of Chinese popular unrest and baiting of local Japanese needed by spunky little Japanese Premier Koki Hirota as an excuse to intervene. By his orders a Japanese cruiser and six destroyers soon slithered into Amoy "to protect Japanese lives and property." Added a Japanese destroyer officer, "We are ready to proceed...
Since the British have always been realists, they cannot fail to see in this proposal anything but the ruse it is. To give Mussolini a free hand, while indefinite peace proposals are made by a disinterested party, would be a form of imperial suicide of which London has not yet been guilty...
...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...