Word: faked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be a national calamity, a calamity to the Democratic Party if he is renominated. ... As long as the Administration keeps up the present program of trying to establish a fake prosperity from scarcity I will continue to fight until we whip them...
...dropped cannon cracker bombs. To make things more realistic Air Minister Goring had a section of Berlin subjected to real tear gas. Squads of Nazis dashed about telling teary citizens not to become panicky, assuring them "You will soon be quite all right." To make things still more realistic fake wounded soon appeared profusely bandaged. A little girl of nine, supposed to have had her arm blown off by an air bomb, happily displayed a red-daubed papier-mache stump...
...their semi-annual convention in Manhattan, members of the National Puzzlers' League teased one another's brains for three days with: an anagram for "a counterfeit nickel" (solution: "Notice, fake lucre, tin"); a transdeletion or progressive anagram from '"sod" to "countryside" in eleven changes; a rebus of an H written inside a G, both over a W (since it is The H and writ in G on the W all, the solution is: "The handwriting on the wall"); and interminable alphagrams, charades, transposals, cryptograms, rhomboids, antigrams, palindromes, inverted pyramids and plain puzzles. Outstanding contribution was a "seventeen...
...Government contended that: 1) Mr. Mellon had failed to report about $5,000,000 of his 1931 income; 2) he had cut his reported income of nearly $11,000,000 down to a taxable $2,000,000 chiefly through bogus losses achieved by fake stock transfers. Prime instance, of which the facts but not the intent were verified last week by Mr. Mellon's longtime confidential secretary, Howard M. Johnson...
...each student. Lee might have anticipated Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover by entering the insurance business, but he refused a $10,000-a-year job as supervisor of agencies of an insurance company. He knew business was not his field, and it was not in his nature to fake...