Word: fake
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herbert K. Sorrell, whose A.F.L. Conference of Studio Unions has had Hollywood cinemakers in strike ferment for three years, denied over & over that he had ever been a Communist Party member. Shown a C.P. card signed "Herbert Stewart" (Sorrell's mother's name was Stewart), he cried "fake," but admitted that it looked like his handwriting. An expert swore that...
...that they didn't peel any more. They just did "exotic numbers," "bacchanales" or "veil dances." But it looked much like the public disrobing of old, although not quite as thorough. One night, when the cops warned Stripper Georgia Sothern to watch her bumps, she replied: "Those are fake bumps, honey." The cops went away...
...President Benes at Hradcany Castle to present a list of the new cabinet ministers (twelve Communists, two Socialists and eight miscellaneous "safe" men). Ninety minutes later, the Czech radio triumphantly announced that the President had accepted the new cabinet. The President's office promptly denied this. The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning. Loudspeaker trucks proclaimed that his pro-Communist rival Zdenek Fierlinger had resumed leadership of the Socialist Party. This meant that the Communists could now control a legal majority in Parliament. But Benes still held...
Sleep, My Love (Triangle; United Artists) is a rather fishy thriller about a sleek fiend (Don Ameche) who enlists the help of a fake psychiatrist (George Coulouris) to drive his wife (Claudette Colbert) to insanity and/or suicide. Claudette is rich and Ameche is crazy for a gold digger (Hazel Brooks). An eligible Bostonian (Robert Cummings) traps the villains after some narrow squeaks...
...confer but to propagandize. Marshall's words and tactics at the table made it clear that what he sought there (agreement being impossible) was world understanding of the misunderstanding. He was trying to demonstrate once & for all that true negotiations with the Russians were not possible, and that fake negotiations, based on the myth of "the unanimity of the great powers," would prove a fatal trap for U.S. policy. Since Molotov was tougher and more plainly destructionist than he had to be, the Russian helped Marshall make his point...