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Trips to the Mediterranean served only to reinforce Mencken's native temper. At the Vatican he inserted himself among the pilgrims and impudently kissed the apostolic ring of Pius X. Jerusalem he deplored for its "crude pottery of the thunder-mug species." The Holy Sepulcher he found obviously "bogus ... for unless Joseph of Arimathea was a reincarnation of Samson no one could imagine him rolling a stone large enough to close it." Mencken was full of sympathy for the British soldier who "spoke in favorable terms of the destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year...
Yenching's alumni and trustees reopened their university not only to continue its own life but to forestall the opening by the Japanese of a bogus Yenching on the old campus. Though the university lost its campus, it did not lose its $2,800,000 endowment: that was safely in the hands of its board of trustees in Manhattan. At Chengtu (nickname: "Little Peiping"), where it is a neighbor of West China Union University and three other Christian universities (Ginling, Nanking, Cheeloo), Yenching is likely to remain one of the world's great universities: to its already distinguished...
...picture Concord looking as though cowboys would come hooting through the Common, yu might believe the town is east of the Hudson. And the hero, Ronnie Colman, who graduated from Harvard Law School at an amazingly undraftable age, is plagued with the epithet "Sonny." Acceptance of the bogus New England village apparently implies belief in Colman as "Sonny." Cary Grant tries and tires his old, set role, and Jean Arthur still has a hair-do which goes up and down like a broken window-shade. Errors, slight in themselves, have a cumulative effect which shatters the pleasant spell of such...
...idea sounded good: make counterfeit defense stamps of the two-bit variety, turn them in for cash instead of for war bonds. But underworld assistance was needed to market them, and even gangsters can be patriots. Two weeks after the first batch of $52,500 worth of bogus stamps were off the presses, the Secret Service, on a underworld tip, had each counterfeiter under surveillance...
...Hocus-Bogus. In Tulsa, two motorists involved in an accident were ordered by two bogus cops to appear in bogus court next morning. They did, were met at the courtroom door by the two bogus cops, were fined $65 by a bogus judge, dismissed...