Word: stratagems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their first contract came from S. D. Warren & Co., papermakers. It was secured partly through an ingenious stratagem of Employe Cartwright. At that time typewriters were extremely scarce and expensive, far beyond the means of the young firm. Nevertheless, when Paperman Warren came to Stone & Webster to discuss the contract, the click-click-click of a typewriter could be distinctly heard from a back room. "Ah," approved Mr. Warren, "you have one of these new writing machines. That is what I like to see?a modern, progressive spirit." After Mr. Warren had left, the typewriter was discovered...
...chappie, who when lecturing to U. S. women's clubs (TIME, May 31, 1926) often alluded to his gallant War record. Today, as Editor of Britannia, he has the potent backing of Inveresk Pulp & Paper Ltd., a shrewd firm which sells its product to the public direct, by the stratagem of owning the London Daily Chronicle and such famed magazines as the Tatler, Bystander, Graphic, Sphere?and now Britannia...
...present revival of perhaps the greatest as well as the last of the comedies of the Restoration period. "The Beaux' Stratagem" by the Jewett players at the Repertory, shows in colorful style the author's laughing mastery over action, for eminence in which George Farquhar's name has slipped through generations of drama lovers...
Ascending the Tribune he delivered a masterful defense of his policies, and then, before the Opposition could reply, produced an Imperial rescript dissolving the Diet. By this stratagem Premier Tanaka secured the widest possible publicity for a speech which amounted to the electoral platform of his party, and at the same time checkmated the Opposition's desire to air its contrary platform in the Diet...
Creoles is a well-dressed romance of New Orleans in 1850. There is a convent maid who tries to seduce a handsome pirate. By this stratagem she plans to evade a villianous, worm-eaten roue who, in the manner of those times, is on the point of buying her outright from a bankrupt parent. Every now and then, Alan Dinehart, acting the buskined pirate, stamps, frowns and mutters guttural imprecations, showing that the little girl from the convent is tampering with a wicked fellow. The difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls...