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Word: faked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forbes money as the former had testified, who told that Mr. Mortimer had sworn to "get" Mr. Forbes for not joining him to make illicit profits, who declared that Mr. Mortimer had threatened to drag his wife's name in the mire when she would not give fake testimony to ruin Mr. Forbes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Veterans' Bureau | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...torn into broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 5, 1925 | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...promised him for two thousand francs ($100) a divorce in from four to six weeks "if his wife made no fuss." When Mr. Hunt stated that his wife was in the U. S., the lawyer replied: "As far as your wife is concerned, we will simply get her a fake certificate of domicile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Paris Divorces | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

...certificate of domicile is secured either from the address where the petitioner is actually residing or from some purely fake residence . With this in hand it is usually the custom to secure from the police a card of identity so that the proper identification of the party is doubly assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Paris Divorces | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

Chairman Clem Shaver (a fake one) bought a map of the Confederate States "to figure the electoral votes of John W. Davis. . . . But this map doesn't show Kentucky!" cried the mummer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sequelae | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

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