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Word: bogus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sentimentality Bernard Shaw's chief charm, U. S. lack of romantic or musical appreciation, social rise of the Southern Negro, exercise unnecessary, emasculation of U. S. actors by Anglicizing, a six-page list of the sex-business in one season's plays, the U. S. "itch for bogus purple," the old U. S. saloons not clubs, an assault on publishers including A. A. Knopf, dancing not art but exhibitionism. A typical Nathanity: "And if too many people familiarly call Jimmy Walker by his first name, too many, it seems to me, do the same thing with Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nathanities | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Bogus lectures on anatomy are given by horn-spectacled Dr. Rockwell, who also plays a flageolet. The rest of the comedy has been long hallowed in burlesque halls-the mad bellows and sobs of Harry Welsh as a shouting waiter; the kicks which short, tough Joe Phillips aptly places on female targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...Paris, Andre Rimbaud, hunted criminal, paid for bogus newspaper notices of his death and burial. Police suspected, consulted records, ferreted, arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Bogus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. last week gave testimony which helped convict one Meyer Sussman, 20, of illegally entering her Manhattan apartment building, once as a bogus tailor's boy, once as a fake cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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