Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James's Joe Kennedy, God-sped him back to his post two weeks ahead of schedule. Foreign policy, meantime, was a hushed subject. To a press conference which got after him again about the sale of prime air power to foreigners, Franklin Roosevelt exploded with characteristic trick humor...
...landed on and occupied, in spite of a 32-year-old treaty with France and in the teeth of warnings received last year from France and Britain, this fertile and strategic patch of about 13,500 square miles. Once more the Anti-Comintern bloc was up to its clever trick of kicking the democracies in the pants when they were worried about troubles elsewhere. The Japanese war office hissed assurances that the Hainan occupation was purely a military operation to keep the Chinese from shipping arms to South China. The Japanese said they would withdraw when there was no further...
Fred Moseley, 1936 Harvard captain, and George Roberts, a star of last year's ice squad, were the boys who turned the trick on their Alma Mater by accounting for all of the Nicks' tallies. Moseley turned in two beautiful goals, both of them in the third period, and Roberts, playing his first game for the New Yorkers rang up the first St. Nicks score early in the second period...
...BIGGER THEY COME-A. A. Fair-Morrow ($2). Introducing fat, profane Detective Bertha Cool and her runty assistant Donald Lam. Slot-machine racketeers in a Southwestern locale, with a jackpot ending that turns on a neat legal trick...
First time KMOX (St. Louis) invited bald, elderly Rev. Louis Sieck of the Zion Lutheran Church to its Church of the Air pulpit, studio technicians schooled him thoroughly in the ticklish trick of winding up his sermon on the dot. Recently the Rev. Mr. Sieck was invited to KMOX again. This time he knew all the answers. Glancing over his spectacles now and then at the big studio clock as he rolled off his message. Parson Sieck was pleased to fancy that he and the big second hand were finishing in an expert dead heat. "Glory...