Word: fake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped by Wilbur. An attempted wide end run by Crickard resulted in a five yard loss. Wood made a splendid kick outside at Yale's 17-yard marker. With five minutes to play in the first half. Yale failed to gain through center of the Harvard line. A fake lateral by Booth proved easy meat for Hageman. Parker's kick was nearly blocked and a low punt soared to White on the Yale 35-yard line. An offside Yale penalty however, gave Harvard the ball on Yale's 30-yard line...
They won, for example, when Congo, a pigmy elephant, tried to walk into Dr. Ditmars' office, got stuck in the doorway. Congo snorted and started to shake the walls down. Dr. Ditmars at once broke into a noisy, fake argument with a keeper. The argument attracted Congo's attention. He quieted down and keepers eased him from the doorway...
...every Knight. The order has an elaborate system of initiations, demands a certain secrecy "unless the interests of State or Church demand" otherwise. Because of this, many ignorant people hate and fear the K. of C. as a subversive organization, believe implicitly in a famed, tingling "great and fake oath" which, they think, binds the Knights to battle Protestantism. In reality the order is mild and charitable: its meetings, with baseball games, dancing, parades, are no more noxious than those of any other U.S. fraternal order...
...Black Camel (Fox) is an amusing mystery story in which the corpse is that of a cinemactress, the scene Hawaii, the detective celebrated Charlie Chan, the suspects as follows: a patently fake male fortuneteller, a slick actor in a dinner coat, a pretty little girl who steals an emerald ring, a butler who does not know his place, a young millionaire who drives a roadster and is anxious to get out of town, a maid servant, a man who mumbles indignantly, a beachcombing artist with sneering enunciation, a tough blonde who incites Detective Chan to aphorism. After several aphorisms (sample...
...comparable to Mother Goose without rhymes and its campus mise-en-scene suggests the cloisters of a day nursery for retarded adolescents. If anyone can take any interest at all in Confessions of a Coed, it will be because Sylvia Sidney almost manages to make real emotions out of fake situations. One of the many young actresses who have effected a successful transfer from the stage to talkies, she replaced Clara Bow in City Streets when the Daisy de Boe scandal and Cinemactress Bow's indispositions made the substitution necessary. She is now being groomed, though inefficiently...