Word: ruses
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Albert Einstein's sartorial negligence still drives his wife to tears. Her latest wail: Under pretense of being a guest at tea, a friendly tailor measured the professor's size by sight, made him a suit. When the tailor presented the finished suit and explained the ruse, the professor lost his temper (a rare event), chased the tailor from the Einstein's Berlin apartment, refused to wear the suit. He gives his clothes money to charity. Last week he was vacationing at Caputh near Potsdam, wearing white linen pajamas, no socks, no shoes...
...Hoover was a promoter rather than a mining expert. His salary was $5,000 for mining work, $95,000 as a financial adviser. . . . His English [is] no more precise or pure now than when he flunked this course at Leland Stanford University and was enabled to graduate by a ruse...
...idea how much she understood. She understood everything. When Mr. Fatigay's lonely pedagogical exile was over, he took Emily with him to England. Amy, his fiancee, returned Emily's jealousy with interest, but made the mistake of despising her rival. By a clever ruse Emily substituted herself for Amy at the wedding (they were about the same height and coloring) and to Mr. Fatigay's horror he discovered he was married to a chimpanzee! The parson would do nothing about it. Mr. Fatigay rushed off to go to the dogs; Amy showed herself in true...
...specialist in microscopic anatomy at the University of Oklahoma records an experiment which should be of considerable advantage to your correspondents who are worried over dogs charging and sniffing through their shrubbery. It is much more scientific and sure-fire than the ruse of the "fierce yellow tomcat" (TIME, Feb. 2). Since employing this means in one local grocery store, baskets of apples, potatoes, etc. have been displayed with complete immunity from attack...
...gods have always constituted themselves men apart. Their tribulations they insist are none of the worshippers' business. So this hearing was customarily secret and secretive. To preserve secrecy Bishop Cannon's inquisitors tried to hide their identities, went to the fantastic ruse of calling each other "Brother Smith" or "Brother Jones" when in the hearing of outsiders...