Word: cheating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talked a while on behalf of the President of the U.S. "I think this is the best vacation I have had down here," he said. "I think the family enjoyed it too." Margaret and Bess had flown to Washington at midweek, a prompt signal for Adviser Clark Clifford to cheat on shaving. The President himself was due to leave for Washington Dec. 20 and to take off three days later for Christmas with the family in Independence...
...morally justifiable to charge upwards of five dollars admission to see Harvard get walloped by a series of "big name" opponents. The Alumni, of course, are the first to shout cheat about this, and here they are right. If we are to continue with the present philosophy of scheduling, we should play five-dollar football; if we cannot play five-dollar football, we should admit it and charge $1.80 for games with teams in our class. Harvard cannot attempt to pay for its athletic program with expensive football tickets unless it produces football worth that price of admission...
...York's Communist Daily Worker had not given its stamp of approval to local revivals of four old W. C. Fields comedies and last week Columnist David Platt told why: "It is because three of the four, The Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee and You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, are shot through with white chauvinism...
...learns that not all her father's money can buy the ideals and dreams of a starving rural doctor. In Avon Periodicals' Campus Romances, a girl who steals examination notes to win a boy's love is shocked to hear him say: "If you'd cheat like that . . . you'd cheat in other ways." (Her sadder & wiser conclusion: "I know now that love will come when the time is ripe.") In Super Publications' Love Problems & Advice, an ambitious secretary discovers in the nick of time that $100-a-week salaries and mink coats from...
...game's immortals, Cardus writes: "His cricket is compounded of soft airs and fresh flavors. The bloom of the year is on it [and] the very brevity of summer is in it ... Woolley, so the statisticians tell us, often plays a long innings. But time's a cheat . . . The brevity in Woolley's batting is a thing of pulse and spirit, not to be checked by clocks, but only to be apprehended by imagination. He is always about to lose his wicket; his runs are thin-spun ... An innings by him is almost too unsubstantial for this...