Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Topeka, Wes Roberts slipped into a side door of the White House with a letter in his pocket. He handed Dwight Eisenhower his resignation as the $32,500-a-year national chairman, and then issued a bitter statement: "I have resigned because a carefully contrived and thinly veiled plot growing out of a fierce factional fight in Kansas state politics has destroyed my usefulness as national chairman." President Eisenhower issued a quiet statement of his own: "I believe his decision a wise...
...world? Often, he admits in another essay, he curls up with a bad book, a whodunit. An outspoken fan of Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler, Maugham nonetheless argues that the detective story has been played out ever since readers wised up to, and writers exhausted, all possible plot gimmicks...
...general question of influence peddling. Said he: "I challenge these accusers to bring forth a single person with whom I was in contact who will stand up to me and say I exercised any political influence ... A set of circumstances was deliberately twisted and distorted in a calculated plot to blacken my name and destroy my usefulness in my present position...
Says Ros: "I've played 19 career women and I'm tired of it. After all, you can only get a pompadour so high. The plot was always the same, and I used to even get the same desk in each picture...
...Swaffer grew sick of the theater ("I knew all the tricks, I knew every plot"). Turned Socialist-minded by the Depression, he quit the Express to try his hand at politics in the Laborite Herald. But his new column, like the old, was mainly about Swaffer's likes & dislikes: the change was so slight that actors hardly realized he had "stopped" being a critic. The column's I-studded name-dropping led one magazine to run a contest on how Swaffer would start his column if Press Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere were killed simultaneously in an accident...