Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definite information on this subject, perhaps having through previous experience a dread of too much publicity. The CRIMSON reporter, however, succeeded in gathering that something unusual was likely to transpire in the course of the next 24 hours. It was even rumored that Lampy had some villainous trick up his sleeve and that the flag would be of a verdant...
...DOCTOR LOOKS AT BIOGRAPHY?Psychological Studies of Life and Letters?Joseph Collins, M.D.?Doran. ($3). Dr. Collins, who looked at literature through a neurologist's spectacles, has played the same trick on biography and autobiography. Those who find the lives of distinguished or notorious persons the best reading in the world will be stimulated. Occasionally his vocabulary is too technical for the average reader, but most of the time the doctor uses the language of a broader culture, relieved by sudden reversions to modern slang...
...were disappointed in Mitzi because we know her as one of the best of musical comedy stars a few years back and because we believe that she has outgrown pretty songs and trick dancing. It seems a shame that she should run the risk of spoiling the memories of "Pom-Pom" and "Lady Billy". It seems a shame that any actress should play to the bright footlights of musical comedy in the decline of her popularity. The audience is quick to forget and quick to show that it has forgotten...
...Rumors were shelved, as the Finance Committee of the Chamber played a concrete trick on M. Briand by voting to reject the keynote of the Briand-Doumer measure, the increased "indirect taxation." This was regarded as a body blow to Briand, since in order to overrule the Committee he would have to go before the Chamber on this one point alone. Nobody believed that even M. Briand could get the Deputies to stick an obnoxious tax stamp squarely on their constituents' cigarets without the enveloping camouflage offered by the Briand-Doumer scheme as a whole. The action of the Committee...
...wars ever waged by France (those in Syria and in Morocco). Amid all these distractions he has kept up his hobby, "higher mathematics," and found time to spend hours in the laboratory of his son Jean, a quiet investigator in the field of comparative histology. Last week, by a trick of Fate, it was the good-looking young histologist, not the grizzled care-worn statesman, whose name was blazoned unexpectedly across column heads in the French press...