Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must go to an institution, one comes remarkably close to the familiar midyear-finals feeling. And when the tension is broken, and Guy and Slim come crashing through the window where they had been watching, one chuckles with re- lief even though he recognizes this as an old, old trick...
...Pincus' newest trick was a modification of the late (1859-1924) Jacques Loeb's method of producing fatherless sea urchins by soaking sea urchin eggs in very salty water, of producing fatherless frogs by pricking frog eggs with a needle. Dr. Pincus soaked some rabbit ova in brine. Other rabbit ova he heated to 113° F., about 10° above normal. When he placed salted or heated ova in the fallopian tubes of rabbits, the rabbits became pregnant. Too impatient to wait 33 days for normal parturition, he killed the does, slit them open, found well-developed...
...parlor game of '"Consequences," unlikely characters are confronted with each other; their cross-purposed dialog and action are sometimes funny. As a serious literary trick, Plato used the same device; so did Walter Savage Landor, British Novelist Keith Winter's latest book is based on this "consequential"' scheme. Suppose that D. H. Lawrence, surrounded by sycophants, went to Mallorca to die. Suppose Noel Coward, vacationing, became his neighbor. What would happen? On this lively supposition Author Winter has written a tale that is blurbed as another South Wind but is more like Somerset Maugham's spiteful...
...with an enormously expanding market, trying to please retail buyers who demanded fresh styles and fresh discounts, trying to give up as little as possible in each successive treaty with the fighting Garment unions, trying to keep their heads up in a competition which involved almost every dirty trick known to business...
...tiny, tossing sloop. But the finale falls flat once again. Preston and Carole are married while conducting a licentious altercation. Pathe news catches the spirit of the thing, and elsewhere in the program very impressvely sums up the last twenty-five years in all their hectic strife. But the trick is worth only one rendering, and that has already been given by a much more charming pair of warriors, Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, in "The Bride Comes Home". "Love Before Breakfast"; sour belches after