Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sidewalk slang for "bogus," "artificial," "untrue...
...checks (forged, bogus, worthless, raised, altered) are on the increase, both as to number and amounts involved...
...members are "hazed" and "razzed" cruelly. Favorite tortures are to sell them stocks which do not exist, deliver them bogus orders from telephone booths, induce them to smoke ($15 fine...
Quaint, but probably constructed within the last millenium, the bogus "tomb" was an enclosure whose walls marked the outline of a supposedly buried female of gigantic stature. At the head was a raised mound. Midway in the enclosure rose a small whitewashed dome, protecting from the elements a mystic black stone, El Surrah...
...watercolour by ladies of the place, living and dead; a few portraits in the drawing-room, one of which, almost black, was reputed to be a Gainsborough." Rackham had come into the possession of Mrs. Hilda Maple, a widow with a business head. She filled it with bogus antiques, planned to sell it at a huge profit. But her nephew, John Maple, who considered himself the rightful heir of Rackham, resolved to buy it at a humble figure. One weekend, Hilda invited to Rackham, with the idea of hornswoggling them into buying the place, gouty Lord Mere de Beaurivage...