Word: unbeknown
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...point, he swore he "could not remember" where his only child was born in 1942, later on produced glib details of his own life in kindergarten, nearly 40 years ago. He blandly told the court that the name "Philip" appeared on his birth certificate, unbeknown to him or his parents, because one of his aunts "had a peculiar penchant for naming babies Philip." As confusion piled on top of contradiction, Judge Medina clasped both hands over his head in bewilderment. Medina's patience was beginning to grow thin: when Defense Attorney George W. Crockett Jr. got into the wrangling...
...length-with Syracuse third, Navy fourth and Princeton, making its debut in the Intercollegiate, eighth and last. To the victorious crew went added glory when it was learned that they had 1) rowed 2½ extra miles to the starting line earlier in the afternoon only to discover that, unbeknown to them, the race had been postponed; 2) rowed the last mile with a broken tiller rope...
...Paris nine years ago, the opera was seldom put on. Many at the U. S. premiere last week, listening to the puzzled, formless music, thought they could tell why. Others were impressed by the vivid passages of declamation, the odd, unpleasant story of a woman who murdered her husband unbeknown...
...Miss Durbin and her two sisters (in the film) figure is not unusual, but the clever way it is juggled and tossed to the audience disguises its age. Learning that their father is chasing and being chased by a blonde adventuress (Binnre Barnes) in New York, the three sisters, unbeknown to their broken-hearted, divorced mother, take ship for America to make a counter-attack against the "enemy." They gain their first point when "Penny" interrupts every attempt of their papa's "Precious" to talk at luncheon; later "Penny" drags her bed across the floor while the adventuress is singing...
...dinner table. A steward was dispatched on the sport, with explicit orders to leave behind him the most perfectly arranged and executed masterpiece within the scope of his capabilities. This he proceeded to carry out in a fashion acceptable even to the extremely fastidious taste of the President, who, unbeknown to the Great Lord of the Kitchen, carefully inspected everything before dismissing the man with his customary curt...