Word: feigned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Different Language" and in "Love Me, Love My Dog." The direction of Paul Crabtree seemed to be striving for adolescent stage humor, such as having the men roll up their trousers to reveal garters, and allowing excessive mugging by the dancers, even to the extent of permitting one to feign illness and rush into the wings to vomit. Oh yes--there is a small girl in the show who re-unites the lovers and who looks very, very much like Margaret O'Brien...
...fail to prevent them must share in guilt for the dead . . . We must not forget that the roots of conflict flourish in the faults and failures of those who seek peace just as surely as they take shape from the diseases and designs of aggressors . . . We cannot feign innocence through indifference or neglect of struggles that bring on wars...
...possible goodness, you do violence to the teaching of Christ, who ascribes the power of being perfect to us: 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.' In the works of the saintly, there is nothing of the corruption you feign...
...businessmen . . . in financial difficulties because of the depression," told them of an easy way to make money. Heart disease, Dr. Hedley pointed out, "is easy to simulate and difficult to disprove," and juries tend to sympathize with the claimant. So the lawyers hired doctors to coach policyholders how to feign heart attacks and symptoms of coronary arteriosclerosis with angina pectoris...
...today Stamm thinks occasionally of those school days. "Everybody give a deep sight for Rosie," he says, and led by Teacher, the class heaves in wistful unison. On the way home from school he would slow his steps that Rosie might overtake him; and when she did, he would feign surprise, and gently close his "De Bello Gallico." Then, chaperoned by Sachs' cow, Sully and Rosie would walk on together. Rosie was beautiful, with golden hair and deep blue eyes. But she moved away to New York and the plot sickened...