Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between love affairs Dolores was duped into a bogus marriage with an Egyptian magician, known in the music halls as Osiris, who deserted her. Her other husbands were Capt. Harry Sadler and George Livermore, both of whom had to divorce her. After the suicide of Artist Atkinson she appeared briefly in a melodrama based on her own career, and wrote her autobiography. Excerpt...
...sell & switch" racket: A bogus stockselling crew obtains the stockholders list of a reputable company (the ''leads''), hires telephone salesmen (the "openers'') to win their confidence of certain selected shareholders on the list (the "prospects"). Then high-pressure salesmen arrive to tip off the prospect that his stock is being "hammered" by bear operators persuade him to sell it, switch his funds to a new issue, almost invariably worthless...
...editor of a Polish-language newspaper, accused of collaborating with an Endicott Johnson foreman. Another was a Scranton, Pa. church organist, behind whose organ $1,250 of the bogus bills were discovered. Another was Robert Reidt Jr., son of a Long Island tea shop proprietor who frightened his neighbors in 1925 by proclaiming the end of the world was at hand...
...risque play all through; the moments of bogus high comedy which mar the efforts of the smartly cynical gentry are pleasingly absent. The theme is the ancient and unfailing one of seduction--but without any philosophy or moralizing, except for the rationalizing in which any normal man might indulge when unexpectedly surprised in a bedroom with his lithesome stenographer; this bedroom is--as it should be--the center around which the action of the play revolves. It is in this fatal bedroom that Warren Pascal is caught when his fiancee and her brother unexpectedly arrive; poor Warren with admirable technique...
Either clean up the bogus Fukien Government or the Nanking Government promises you utter annihilation...