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Word: tricking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Volpone" is a long and beautifully bred sneer, tuned within an octave whose extremes are its own deft slapstick and the high cyniscism of "Caprice". Ben Jonson gave the Fox his being and his taste to trick the would be inheritors, who licked his hands for the delicious death sweat. Since then "Volpone" has been through the adaptation of Stefan Sweig and the translation of Ruth Langner. Even now, in the buzz of Mosca the Gadfly, the pandering servant who wins gold for Volpone to dirk him in the end with his own weapons of pen, ink and attested parchment...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

...will play 250 points of 18.2 balk-line and then 15 or 20 points of three cushion billiards. After the match each man will give an exhibition of trick shots. The Union intends to place in the Living Room the stands of the H. A. A. now erected in the Hemenway Gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORLD'S CHAMPION BALK-LINE PLAYER AND COCHRAN MEET | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...will first play 250 points of 18.2 balk-line and then 15 or 20 points of three cushion billiards. After their match, each man will give an exhibition of trick shots. The Union intends to place in the Living Room the stands of the H. A. A. now erected in the Hemenway gymnasium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOREMANS AND COCHRAN TO PLAY BILLIARDS AT UNION | 1/5/1929 | See Source »

...Chinese Foreign Minister Wang resulted in cancellation of fully perfected plans that a U. S. war boat should fire the first "big gun" salute since the U. S. officially "recognized" the Nationalists months ago (TIME, Aug. 6). The failure of U. S. guns to boom seems an inexcusably missed trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...pink and black jacket is a subtitle mentioning good woman; on her title page in pink fast deflowering to purple she nevertheless promises "a romance." This for Michael Arlen of the onetime vogue is an amalgam so incongruous that one can but suspect him of a publicity trick. The suspicion is confirmed by the old sophisticated sentimentalities of style ill-matched to a heroine, beautiful though near-sighted and bespectacled, passionately devoted to her children though they visit the pages but once, loyal to a faithless husband though she begs one of her many admirers to elope with her. Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Again, Arlen | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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