Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this purpose an entire section of the G. P. U., it is understood, constantly fabricates bogus "secret documents" resembling the G. P. U.'s confidential papers. Theory: when the police (of Bangkok, for example) seize the effects of a G. P. U. agent a great many of his papers will prove to be "forgeries" (forged by the G. P. U.) and in the public mind (of Siam, for example) the work of the police will be discredited...
Some of the lines in Five Star Final are unbelievably bad. At one point two colored characters engage in such minstrel show chatter as: "What am a suicide pact?" And a bogus air enters during the scenes in which disillusioned reporters tell each other their troubles. The play has undeniable vitality, however, and provides a good deal of technical information on the inner workings of a gum-chewer sheetlet. Arthur Byron is masterful, makes completely credible the part of a tough, dogged newsman...
...Hoot also gibed at the "girder-Gothic" which its editor claims has turned the library into a "fortress." The architects are severely criticized for squandering money on "bogus Elizabethan mansions" for students who have no desire to live in them...
According to information received at the Fogg Museum of Art, no bogus art "treasures" have been foisted upon Harvard, as all objects submitted to the museum must first be passed on by a jury composed of the Fine Arts Faculty, a group of highly qualified art judges...
...Through The Night is really a variety of mystery play. Actress Helen MacKellar is wedded to a righteous hypocrite who has been appointed Crime Commissioner of a metropolitan suburb. Having pitched their drama in an urbane setting, Playwrights Golding & Dickey feel free to introduce all the standard elements of bogus stage high life-a crafty butler, a drunken polo player, an. unscrupulous Spanish noblewoman, a millionaire and his wife, a smart lawyer who sympathizes with Actress MacKellar. The story gets under way when the rich neighbors are robbed of their jewelry. Miss MacKellar catches a smooth young man with...