Word: trick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minus Times Minus Equals Plus. If ever a man had reason to be bewitched, bothered and bewildered by recent history's queer swerves, it was His Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi. For 20 long years he had played with London, played with Moscow and never lost a trick. Actually he never played both ends against the middle, for he never needed to. During most of the 20 years, London and Moscow felt towards each other much as Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge feels towards Negro Ph.D.s and vice versa. But now, somehow, crazily, incredibly, these two irreconcilables stood shoulder...
...below). As had been the case at every period of imminence, misleading rumors lit up the hot countries, like sheet lightning which has no real bolt: Was the Dnieper Dam blown up? Were the Germans making armored sleighs for winter warfare in Russia? Or was the report merely a trick to lull the London-Washington Axis? Did the Americans intend to concentrate bombers against Japan at Vladivostok? Leaders spoke: Franklin Roosevelt talked a good war (see p. 12), and Winston Churchill declared...
...Baguio, where it played symphonies for vacationing Manilans while puzzled Igorots in G strings looked on from the sidelines. Zipper rehearses his men for 90 hours before each concert, sometimes has to teach them how to play their parts. But he claims that his musicians can grasp a trick of technique quicker than many a more thoroughly trained Occidental. Says he: "My first clarinetist could play with any orchestra in the world...
...Summer Night: the finest of them, is a subtle story using only one dubious trick -a deaf woman's memory-and telling of a night-crazy little girl, a faded husband, a pathetically ill-matched rendezvous, a tortured, aging male virgin...
...expert repair work the other car limped off under its own power. Eleanor Roosevelt took a wrong turn in Bangor, Me., drove 88 unfamiliar miles out of her way, turned up at a dinner party just in time for dessert. Comedian Joe Cook sold his fabulous Sleepless Hollow, trick estate at Lake Hopatcong, N.J., complete with squirting telephones, rubber-legged chairs, golf-ball tree, a nine-hole golf course which has a hole-in-one hole. Billy Conn, the almost-champ, arrived in Hollywood with his new bride to start work together in a prizefight movie. Sam Goldwyn signed...