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Dante himself is a bearded, white bearded trickster, who revealed that his greatest pleasure lies in hoodwinking audiences; in fact , hoodwinking has become his hobby, even in private life. Dante's real name is Harry Jansen, under which name he once worked with Thurston, to whom he considers himself the logical successor as the leading light of American magic...
According to Republicans, an irresponsible New Deal, filled with treachery, fostered by corrupt bosses, was making hash of the defense program, dragging the country into war, bankruptcy, dictatorship. According to Democrats, Republicans recklessly and deliberately falsified the record, and Willkie was an evasive trickster, under the thumb of the most corrupting influence in U. S. politics today, the utilities. Examples of extreme partisan bitterness...
...Warner) is an echo of a 1932 picture called The Mouthpiece. It loosely recalls the life & doings of Manhattan's once celebrated legal trickster, William J. Fallon, who, after saving many a client (including himself when he was accused of jury bribing), died of drink. The Man Who Talks Too Much, Steve Forbes (George Brent), comes to a better end. Disillusioned with the law when he sends an innocent man to the chair, he reacts to this experience by keeping as many guilty men away from it as he can until reformed by the example of a noble younger...
...trickster, a hypocrite, a liar, a backstabber and a would-be dictator were among the various things that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was called last week when he announced to the House of Commons that his Government had recognized Franco Spain. Few predecessors had ever taken such a verbal licking on that floor...
...teeth, a shy, bearded Yankee named Charles Ives was busy writing his own kind of modernist music. Nobody paid much attention to Composer Ives's strange, complicated scores. But little by little the few music-lovers who did hear them began to realize that Ives was neither a trickster nor a crackpot, but a writer of real, live music. Today Ives is regarded even by conservative critics as one of the most individual and authentically American of all U. S. composers. But performances of his music are still few & far between...