Word: baselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baseless is the bumptious rumor that Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (Mrs. Paul Wilson) is really Matilda Wutzki, a Russian-born Jewess. Facts are: Frances Perkins is a Protestant Bostonian whose forbears settled in New England before 1680. Her lifelong interest in social welfare led her to Chicago's Hull House, introduced her to her husband, then secretary to New York's reform Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. Neither she nor her husband has ever been a genuine mill worker...
...lamp") Bradna, chubby faced Parisian brunette, has been starred. In preparation for this great event, Paramount floated the innocent fiction that Olympe had never been kissed. Alleged reason: Olympe is 17 and her mother will not leave her alone with a man until she is 18. To this baseless canard, Olympe last week chirped an exception. In a film called College Holiday (TIME, Jan. 4, 1937) she had been kissed in a purely businesslike way by a juvenile named Louis Da Pron. About her private life, she was less explicit. "I am only 17," said she demurely, "and I have...
...completely taken by surprise, for they were not admitted to the secret before the general public. The circumstances immediately call to mind the case of Professor Baker's "47 Workshop," and arouse dark thoughts and suspicions of another New Haven "grab." But consideration will show these to do utterly baseless...
Most readers had heard of "fear-smell" before, accepted Author Terhune's dictum without question. But Dr. A. J. Reich of Manhattan wrote to the American Medical Association for confirmation. Last fortnight A. M. A. replied in its Journal that Mr. Terhune's "established scientific fact" was baseless. Fact was, said the Journal, that "many hundred times the normal output of epinephrine [adrenalin] may be injected intravenously in dogs, and man, in the presence of dogs, with the latter showing no 'hate' or 'contempt' detectable...
...makes herself as odious as any little girl who has yet appeared in cinema. Among the other children concerned, major acting honors in These Three go to plump little Marcia Mae Jones, as Rosalie, Mary Tilford's unwilling accomplice. Good shot: Mary blackmailing Rosalie into corroborating her baseless story by threatening to accuse her of stealing...