Word: strategem
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From Kos, one of the twelve Greek Aegean islands seized by Italy during the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, there came last week news of an able ecclesiastical strategem. Just before Dictator Pangalos was overthrown the local Greek Archbishop was commanded by the Italian authorities to offer prayers for Dictator Mussolini. He, wily, offered a simultaneous prayer for Dictators Mussolini and Pangalos, humored the pan-Greek leanings of his congregation. Arrested by the irate Italian police for praying for General Pangalos, he said: "You know that General Pangalos and Dictator Mussolini are great friends. They are both Dictators. They have...
...Strategem. A comic touch was added by the fact that the mercenaries "mined" the river elaborately with "large dark objects" which were later declared to be not real mines but dummies intended to intimidate the credulous...
...ancestress of the artist, embalmed in the family archives as a "sad spinster of 21." She quarreled with her lover, who straightway went off to the wars. To regain his love, she made herself a most marvelous frock and went to call on his sister. Whether the strategem succeeded we are not told, but Mr. Betts, aided only by an old print, has done a most appealing portrait of the graceful maiden lady in her gown of heavy yellow silk, poke bonnet, black mitts, lace shawl...
...Performance of Delta Upsilon play, "The Beaux' Strategem," at Brattle Hall...
...Columbia Dramatic Club gave a performance of "The Belle's Strategem" for the benefit of the Yale Infirmary at the Hyperion Theatre, New Haven, last night...