Word: counterfeits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar with the "glided dogman" which passes as counterfeit coin for real aesthetic criticism. We can readily identify the same type of spurious currency stamped with social and political symbols rapidly passed about from hand to hand by the inhabitants of each conforming world. But if we are to reject this false metal we must be prepared each one of us to mint our own--we must be prepared to make our own judgments of the most intricate and complex situations. To do this with any degree of success requires, indeed, "a rich background and a disciplined insight...
...Counterfeit dimes and quarters are being circulated around the Square in large quantities, it was learned yesterday. Local merchants report that they have been deceived by the authentic look of the coins which are made of pewter...
Still trying to get a light touch into the interview, amiable Secretary Morgenthau suggested, "how about counterfeit...
...could scarcely be put to any honest use. Movie blood-hounds hunt in mixed pairs, and the mediocre Mr. Lowe has by his side Miss Constance Cummings, who in spite of her early promise seems to have reached her level. In addition to the train wrecks and the counterfeit detective there are all sorts of tangles involving very much alive villains listed as dead, pseudo-charitable organizations, and bogus priests. But Mr. Lowe unravels them all most admirably, and he explains his deductions so fast that no one is tempted to ask questions. Only we might have suggested...
...Francisco, Hyman Gorwitz, father of eight, irked when neighborhood moppets overran his backyard, buried heavy steel wolftraps there, baited them with counterfeit dimes. Before Trapper Gorwitz could catch anything, adult neighbors scaled his fence, dug up two of his traps, had him jailed for would-be assault on their children. "I'm the easiest fellow there can be if I'm treated right," insisted Hyman Gorwitz...