Word: trick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dyer is favored to take the dive against George Dana and Chet Sagenkahn, and he should be better still if he's learned the trick of highboard diving in only eight and one-half feet of water. There have been reports that a one-meter contest might be more sensible--it was used two years ago, but the highboard has been designated...
With his Irish mug and scarred nose, Maney-who in appearance is a roustabout George M. Cohan-looks the part he plays. He also talks it. Without using cusswords he gets an effect of violent swearing from piled-up epithets, from a trick of calling people things like "low Kanakas," "foul Corsicans." He once called Billy Rose "a penthouse Cagliostro." Suspicious, Rose inquired who Cagliostro was. Said Maney: "An 18th-Century charlatan." "Say," said Rose, "that's swell...
...stray farther afield than the suburbs. If they do, they may run spang into tall, grim-mouthed Edward Ellis, as happens when Gangster Marco (Harold Huber) goes a-rusticating. But Edward Ellis, who helped make memorable the cheaply made quickie, A Man To Remember, does not turn the trick with this thin-spun tale of village politics, catty gossip, calf love...
...positively disgraceful to pose as you do, as the purveyor of reliable news and to feed your readers with entirely onesided and generally false information. It is in fact a dirty trick...