Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sticking to the same doctor . . . There is the same reason for sticking to the same painter-if he is a good painter; he knows the history of one's face as well as the expression assumed for the sitting-an expression which is sometimes a defensive or bogus one when exposed to the sustained scrutiny of an unfamiliar pair of eyes on the other side of the easel...
...opposition of the Legion to the Conference was inevitable and in keeping with its tradition of shortsighted reaction; the action of the State Department, if not expected, was not a great shock; but the alliance of Schlesinger with the bogus A.I.F. was certainly a surprise in his own community, which has come to think of him as a sober and considered political thinker. The Conference he chose to attack probably won't accomplish anything, thanks to the opposition to it. His opposition is justified on the grounds of personal belief; but more reasoned and more careful disapproval might have carried...
Taking no chances, City Hall also set up a bogus Plan E Committee under a former city employee, to split the Plan E backers internally. Finally, officials used a technicality in the law to give petition sheets to Plan A supporters ahead of the others. Plan E people have the case in court now, but regardless of the decision Plan A is almost certain to get on the ballot. Curley's organization has delivered twice the number of necessary signatures once; it can do it again...
...been rumored that the 'Poon was putting out a parody issue for the Yale game, but no one ever expected a bogus football program. Being a surprise makes it doubly good...
...started distributing throughout the Princeton stands the fake issue of the CRIMSON pictured above. Its announcement of the death of Princeton's Coach Roper completely took in the Princeton stands. And one person sitting in those stands was Mrs. Roper, who almost collapsed herself when she glanced at the bogus issue...