Word: counterfeited
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Vocational Guidance. In Fort Worth, arrested after printing and cashing $7,000 worth of counterfeit payroll checks, ex-Convict Ralph W. Hedrick told police he had learned his trade in the West Virginia Penitentiary's printing shop...
...knows how many fakes are circulating, but enough crop up to keep Schoeller and his colleagues busy. Since 1948, some 600 counterfeit paintings have been reported to the police; Paris experts believe they have found at least 4,000 others that the cops never heard about. Schoeller alone has passed on as many as 40 fakes in a week. And so far this year, he has seen no less than ten phony Corots, plus several false Utrillos, Vlamincks and Modiglianis...
President Charles William Eliot, however, thought it would be a "counterfeit presentment...of very doubtful desirablness." In October, 1883, he admitted, "The young Harvard has every claim to a statue, but...what could be better, or more effective, than a Muse of History, of classic model, holding in her hand a tablet inscribed with the name of John Harvard...
...having known the reality, Leona has a saddening experience. Not only does she find that the man is married; he cannot pay for the garnets he has given her, and when she pays for them, the money he got for her on the black market turns out to be counterfeit. He. though remorseful, tells her that she can only view romance through materialistic symbols, and their brief affair comes to a disconsolate...
...father's Russian mistress, Tamara. To Tamara, who has lived precariously for most of her 35 years, Papa Noris is an anchor of security, though he never guesses how often and strangely she drags anchor. For Tamara is a Lesbian, too neurotically selfish for anything but a perverted counterfeit of love. But to the innocent eyes of Hélene, Tamara's brusque, boyish charm, her low voice "rough as a cat's tongue," her disordered flat, a jungle den of cigarette smoke and weird African masks, has all the magnetic pull of an adolescent daydream come...