Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been ingenious enough to satisfy Carl Laemmle Jr. The invisible man has already realized that he must not operate after meals until his food has been transparently digested and that he must never go out in the rain lest water, collecting on the tip of his vague nose, betray his presence. He is stupid enough, none the less, to go to sleep in a barn one snowy night. When he comes out a posse of policemen shoot him in his tracks...
...more truculent half of life, as well as with the dusky female species whose advances he passes off with tactful gentleness, always taking his romance with a grain of salt and never once forgetting his station in life. We follow this troubadour and his disguise, waiting for him to betray himself and his vocation and we are not at all surprised to catch him meditating upon the companions of Xenophon when he comes upon the shores of Lake Balation...
...Schleicher were plotting, summoned Nazi storm troop leaders and Deputies from all over Germany to an historic Party meeting in Berlin. "Comrades," said the Leader gravely, "according to information in my possession Strasser told von Schleicher that he could deliver at least 30 Nazi members of the Reichstag to betray us and support the Schleicher Government, if Schleicher would make Strasser his Vice Chancellor...
When Reichsbischof Müller finally sat down ten bishops rose and laid before the Synod a protest signed by 2,000 German pastors. "It is not permissible," they declared "that the Church of Christ betray brotherly love and by the rule of force become a kingdom of this world. . . . Church ministration is in the greatest danger. Pastors and church officials are persecuted. . . . We protest . . . especially to the so-called 'Aryan paragraph...
...make him a gift of a bunch of pigs that he can show at the coming autumn fairs, or even the Century of Progress, and this will produce in him a mental shift and give him so much care he will never allow that unruly tongue of his to betray ignorance. This may be freakish, but it goes. JENNIE MINERVA MILLS CONRAD Conrad Ranch Conrad...