Word: bogus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...screenplay leaves nothing behind in its tour through the junkyard of old sports movies. When Rooney starts working in Thomas Mitchell's garage, that pulp-story fixture, the star driver with the mean streak, turns up every few minutes to trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good dirt track races go sour because the drivers must constantly snarl, wave and shake their fists at each other. After winning a few big races, visualized with the weary device of flashing sports pages on the screen, Rooney's head swells, he hits the bottle, is ostracized for crashing into...
...plans included bombing the Yard with toilet paper, kidnapping two or three Lampoon "fruits," and dressing an entire bogus Crimson football team which was to have taken the field just as the Band ended its half-time act, and dyeing the Charles River green...
Vocational Training. In Salt Lake City, officials learned that Forger Mearle L. Markely had whiled away his year in state prison by printing up bogus checks in the prison print shop...
...church, since it was her second marriage and his fourth). Sonja was a few minutes late because of some last-minute fussing with her costume, a frilly, off-the shoulder affair of blue net and lace costing around $500-not including, of course, the halo hat of bogus egret feathers, blue lace gloves ("to take the place of sleeves"), a pearl and diamond necklace, diamond bracelet, diamond earrings, and an armful of peach-colored orchids and maidenhair fern. The bride cried some during the ceremony, but cheered up later over the champagne, when 500 close friends gathered to wish...
...testified County Circuit Judge William B. Ardery, a young politician had come to his home in search of advice. The visitor said that he and two other young fellows had forged a batch of ballots and stuffed them into ballot boxes before the polls opened. The bogus ballots had been discovered (253 marked for President Truman and Democratic Senator Virgil Chapman, one for Chapman's Republican opponent). The judge's caller was worried...