Word: faked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship reached Great Britain than a flock of British newshawks descended on Miss Harding, almost got into fist fights with chivalrous passengers who went to her aid, forced her into hysterics long before she reached Liverpool. There she sent Jane ashore separately in disguise, narrowly foiled a fake kidnapping conceived by a British tabloid. Wailed Cinemactress Harding at Belfast: "I'll never permit Jane to go on the stage or act in the films. She is to be educated as a lady...
Elsie de Wolfe was the first U. S. woman decorator, first to use chintz, first to use fake plaster curtains in the corners of her rooms. With a hard, nimble, worldly mind, no children, a first husband at 70, a matchless acquaintance among the royal, the idle and the rich, she has made a fortune out of selling the U. S. the French version of good taste. From Versailles she still advises her Manhattan staff, now headed by Mrs. Eileen Allen, on every new decorating job, ships French materials and antique mirrors...
...first time in its history, U. S. Steel announced that vacations with pay will be given this summer to workers "with five or more years of continuous service." Roared President Michael F. Tighe of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers: "I think it is a fake thrown out by the corporation for the purpose of keeping the employes interested in com-pany unions." Using the added costs of vacation pay as an excuse, U. S. Steel's biggest subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois, promptly opened its books for third quarter business with prices boosted as much...
...screen this week is displaying the new Carole Lombard opus. "The Princess Comes Across" and the boards are carrying the weighty burden of a Cliff Edwards hodge-podge. The film is of the light comedy type and tells all about how a fake princess gets involved in murderous doing on a great trans-Atlantic liner. It's really not bad. Real royalty is sporting itself upon the Loew's screens in the handsome persons of Grace Moore and Franchot Tone playing in "The King Steps Out", a cinematization of Kreisler's light opera story about the marriage of Emperor Franz...
Inexplicable to many is the ability of wrestlers night after night to heave each other around, bounce outside the ring onto concrete floors, go through seeming agonies. Rough & tough anyway and reinforced by several layers of fat, wrestlers have learned how to fall, when to fall, how to fake, when to call quits. Consequently they escape with few injuries beyond strains & bruises...