Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PHILADELPHIA-where $20,000 in bogus $10 bills has recently been passed- WCAU-TV televised a counterfeit and a genuine ten-dollar bill (Hollywood is forced by law to photograph nothing but stage money). With Secret Service sanction, a commentator pointed out the differences (e.g., on the counterfeit, Hamilton's hair is lighter and whiter). WCAU has also televised pictures of wanted criminals, on the theory, says News Director Harold L. Hadley, that "guys who are wanted will frequent taprooms that have television." Fellow barflies are expected to turn them...
Pictured in these nine volumes, this view of the world seems somewhat absurd. It also reflects, beneath its bogus overtones, a belief fairly prevalent in the U.S. from...
...sounded with particular force during the House hearings on Communism in Hollywood (TIME, Nov. 10, 1947). But, wrote Baltimore's crusty old H. L. Mencken (who had himself been accused of Communism after World War I): "The number of such cases has been greatly overestimated by the bogus 'liberals' who are always so ready to slide down the pole when Reds sound the alarm...
Roly-poly Wolfgang Foges (rhymes with bogus), the effervescent Viennese refugee who founded Future, had had to do it this hard way. To save paper, Britain's Board of Trade bans new magazines, but encourages them to print abroad-provided they sell only on subscription and keep off Britain's newsstands...
...bogus edition features a cover by "Birmbarn" and cartoons by other artists with names and styles resembling those in the New Yorker. Regular New Yorker departments are ribbed throughout...