Word: counterfeited
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Typical forgeries of works of art are being shown alongside the original master-works in an exhibit now on public view at the Fogg Museum. Including some seventy genuine and counterfeit works in painting, sculpture, metal working, and decorative arts, some going back almost four thousand years, the display was arranged by students of The Museum Class, of the Fogg Museum and opened yesterday...
...many cases the genuine art objects are not distinguished by label from the counterfeit, and the observer is asked to judge for himself...
...living, in the most hostile environment possible-Victoria's industrial England-as though he were a pagan Greek, "noble and nude and antique." With his trial, imprisonment and shabby ending, Biographer Winwar has no difficulty tracing Wilde's life as a modern Greek tragedy-if an extraordinarily counterfeit...
When George Meyers of Lakewood, N. J. one day last year asked a Philadelphia friend for $25 to use in his upholstery-cleaning business, the friend introduced him to Herman Petrillo. Mr. Petrillo had a better idea. He would give George Meyers some big money "-$500 real or $2.500 counterfeit"-if only he would see that one Ferdinand Alfonsi met an accidental death. Cleaner Meyers told his story to the Secret Service, was hired as an informer. Last week he told his findings in a Philadelphia court, where Mr. Petrillo and two women were on trial for running a racket...
...World War, general counsel for the Dawes Plan and president of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. This made him an expert at international finance, but left him ignorant of commercial banking (in its puny safe B. I. S. has only two coins, one of them a counterfeit, the other a 25? California gold piece). Chunky Leon Fraser left B. I. S. in 1935 for First National. Two years ago, at 47, he moved up to the presidency...