Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan Museum (likewise the Louvre) has been buying bogus antiques from Demotte and others for 20 years, amounting...
Secret Service raids on a counterfeiting conspiracy, characterized in the New York afternoon edition as "gigantic," increased the population of the New York jails by 22 and added to the government's collection of criminal curios about $100,000 in bogus bank notes. Although a cryptic secrecy veiled the details of the Federal activity, it is said that over 1,000 persons will be arrested for connection with the counterfeiters. Millions of revenue stamps, postage stamps, whisky, beer and champagne labels, bonded liquor seals, and doctor's prescription blanks were also discovered. Secret Service men say that their...
...large number of articles of clothing, watches, jewelry, etc., reported stolen from many students' rooms lately, the police authorities have issued a warning against all solicitors who seek trade, subscriptions, or "votes" from members of the University. From the thefts described and other evidence, it is probable that bogus book-agents and men ostensibly seeking "votes" and other aid in obtaining fictitious scholarships are at the bottom of the trouble...
...Lautner '21, leading tenor of the Glee Club, who will appear as Algernon ("Stuffy") Danforth, the pseudo-romantic lover, will have four of the best songs in the show. A. Palmer '20, as "Bogus, a bally butler," has an eccentric dance specially which is equalled only by his song in the second act called "Khuh-Khuh." P. L. Cheney '21 has the part of "I'm al Waze F'hul," who is featured in the song "Sniffies," and in a dance of the triple-jointed variety...