But he tempered his raffish ways with stratagems of genteel respectability, which his mother's presence supported.
Consider these lines from "What A Waste": I could be a lawyer with stratagems and ruses I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises I could be a writer with a growing reputation I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway station…" Luckily for us, he wasn't.
The prohibition against selling landed property was often dodged, however, with a stratagem: the previous owner "adopted" a willing buyer against an appropriate sum of money.
With fawning stratagem, I had managed to manoeuvre into a spare deckchair near him for Yeovil's only championship match of the season.
Although Carlisle and company certainly deserve praise for this clever twist in their defensive assignments, the creativity displayed with this stratagem is predicated on the defensive flexibility of the Mavs' roster, and in particular, of Marion.
Before it collapsed, Lehman crossed the line with a stratagem that enabled it to hide $50 billion, according to a report on the bankruptcy released earlier this year by a court-appointed examiner.
The problem with that stratagem is that, eventually, it destroys the theory's testability: astrology does this by refusing to countenance any negative instance; it renders itself unfalsifiable and therefore superficial.
So why didn't Rowson use the same stratagem with 15... Ne8, with the same idea of following with 16... f6, also covering the fragile d6 square?
Farquhar's real contribution to the English drama came in 1706 with The Recruiting Officer and, in the following year, with The Beaux' Stratagem, which he finished on his deathbed.
It admitted in court that it sent dozens of bankers on thousands of trips with devious stratagems to hide money from tax authorities.
