Word: faked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barrick was clapped into prison, where he threw two "whizbangs" (fake convulsions), demanded ten grains of morphine. (Average pain-killing dose: between 1/6 and ¼ grain.) Strangely enough, after several dopeless days, he did not become violent or sick, as most addicts do, but calmed down, gained weight...
...Says the New Masses: Krivitsky-Ginsberg never was in Russia, never was a Soviet official, is a fake. To these guns it sticks. TIME sticks to no guns...
...similar stunt was staged at Manchester College in North Manchester, Ind., where undergraduates conducted a fake broadcast of a European war so realistically that one student not aware of the hoax fainted...
...feet, shouting, screaming, stamping. In the midst of the uproar the leader of Cornell's swing band leaped on the platform, saxophone in hand, and began to jam. As Cornell's undergraduates realized that they had been summoned not to a real war but to a fake, they fell in relief to singing pacifist songs...
...Broadway's supreme critic of bad plays, with a great gift for wise cracking down on them. ("[Jeremiah] may be entered ... as prophet and loss"; "Twenty years is a long time, except be tween wars.") Anderson was No. 1 Hellza-poppin-hater. Though murderous with fanciness and fake, he is sometimes too clever and cynical at the expense of a serious play...