Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With whimsical and bogus tenderness, U. S. newspapers last week kissed their old favorite, the Man from Mars, goodby. Reason: Walter Sydney Adams, astute director of Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, said he had observed the Martian atmosphere for water-vapor content, found none or almost none-in any case (allowing for instrumental error) not more than 5% of the moisture in earth's air. In such dryness it seemed most unlikely that active animals could exist. In making his observations, Dr. Adams used "the most delicate spectroscope yet known...
Meanwhile there was Price, Waterhouse. Over them the trustee held two clubs: 1) possible recovery from a negligence suit, 2) such a suit's publicity. To a negligence suit, Price, Waterhouse might have made an air-tight technical defense. They had been given full, if bogus, documentation for everything they certified. There was not the remotest question of complicity. Said Price, Waterhouse to Wardall: "We were victims of the same fraud...
...tender little tale about 24 hours in the life of Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), a perennial slogan contestant who is out for Maxford House Coffee Co.'s $25,000 prize. Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...
...showoff. Talkative and genial, he walks with the swivel-hipped, bowlegged, rolling gait of a cowboy, wears his heart on his sleeve, tells his most intimate business to anybody who happens to be around. A sure sucker for any kind of financial venture, he has lost enough money on bogus oil stock to keep many of his neighbors in beans for a lifetime...
...state in separate coffins at a funeral parlor. For Billy Rose, Maney concocted an advertisement for "100 bona fide noblemen" to serve as dancing partners at Rose's Fort Worth Frontier Centennial. "In answering," read the ad, "submit photographs in uniform, with orders, ribbons and decorations evident. . . . Bogus counts, masqueraders and descend ants of the Dauphin will get short shrift...