Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the insurgent editors from Cambridge were amazed in mid-morning when they offered a bogus paper to some vendors of the "Dartmouth Pictorial" to attract customers. "Yeah, I heard about this," said one. The editors started to withdraw as their masterpiece did not even inspire a snicker...
...Nazi sub, and a British merchant ship strayed from its convoy. Director Pat Jackson's amateur actors-all real seamen with their own wartime experiences on their minds-are better than greasepainted professionals could ever hope to be. The picture will delight those who are surfeited with the bogus posturing and declaiming of most wartime fiction...
...better, Canadian living costs considered, than the Canadian Army's). The fact that a recruit must have lived in the U.S. at least 30 days did not seem to bother the draft boards. Said one Canadian: the Toledo board to which he applied arranged everything, even a bogus address. "We were told what to say and what to fill out. They told us . . . not to return to Canada with our application papers as then we might get into trouble...
Crack-Up (RKO Radio) continues Hollywood's current series of easy lessons in psychiatry. For good measure, the picture also offers cops & robbers and a few rudimentary art lectures on the detection of bogus Old Masters...
Crusader Holand's case is largely a concatenation of guesses intended to account for the Minnesota relics. As for the relics themselves, it is possible that they are as bogus as the Cardiff Giant, for whether or not there were Scandinavians in the Middle West in the latter, half of the 14th Century, there certainly have been plenty of them there since the latter half of the 19th Century. If it is hard to believe that any learned wag would bother to cut a long runic inscription as a practical joke, it is also hard to believe that...