Word: fake
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...layers of the cake were removed and Prince, seizing a knife, plunged it up to the hilt into the cake. To his horror and to the amusement of the guests he found that he could neither cut the cake nor move the knife. The cake was fake...
...thankful that the plot was discovered before any damage was done?except the publicity. But even so, there is danger that the thing will become an epidemic. That is, enterprising press agents, now that the jewel-theft scheme has pretty well worn out, may try to fake kidnapping plots and in that way get their employers' names in the paper...
...burned a vision of inextinguishable deviltry-pirates, in look-me-over clothes and patent leather pumps, dicing for stock certificates upon a keg of dynamite. Instead, he found the Elliott sales force met together for a sing-song and smoker. They were mostly young men, dapper but demure. A fake, the Phonofilm Corporation? Why, they told the reporter, President Coolidge himself knew of it. Sure enough, the investigator beheld a phonofilm of the sharp-faced President, on the White House lawn, reading a speech...
...early part of the Government's case was to establish that, through a Canadian company as a blind, Sinclair, a Canadian named Osler, H. M. Blackmer of the Midland Refining Co., James E. O'Neil of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company and others had undertaken a fake transaction in oil by which they made some millions- that these profits were converted into Liberty Bonds- that Secretary Fall got a block of these bonds for the Teapot Dome Lease. Osler, Blackmer and O'Neil have taken up quarters in Europe beyond the Court's reach...
Opposition newspapers carried a fake story that a force of 60,000 Fascisti was marching on Rome to inaugurate a reign of terror. Eight newspapers in Rome, five in Milan, one in Turin, two in Genoa, five in Naples, two in Verona-23 in all-were seized, but were permitted to publish again after the offending story had been deleted...