Word: fakeration
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...everything considered, this oldtime vehicle is as good as any to bring a very fine actress back to New York. It is obvious and it is awkward but it is also amusing, even after 18 years. The story is that of the daughter of a patent-medicine faker, who attempts to scale the social heights. She is particularly eager to bring about the marriage of her sister to wealth and position but is unable to devote her entire time to this object because of the necessity of spending some of it correcting her mother's grammar. Mrs. Fiske returns...
...sometimes acid correspondent, Frank R. Kent, has written of Indiana's Watson: "By outstanding men of his own party he is privately pictured as a blithering blatherskite, the most blatant bluff any state has sent to Washington in years-a disgrace to Indiana, a fraud and a faker." But Senators pay small attention to the strictures of the press and no one can fail to recognize the high esteem which Mr. Watson enjoys in Indiana, which kept him first for twelve years in the House and then elected him to terms aggregating 16 years in the Senate. Although...
...saloon, the gambling den, the bawdy house. Nominee Smith quickly recognized Editor White's source of information to be one Rev. O. R. Miller, a pamphleteer whom the Nominee denounced as "a parasite living on the people of the State of New York ... an 18-carat professional faker...
...Board of Education. Mr. Coath was presiding over another session of School Superintendent McAndrew's "trial" for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.). Although Superintendent McAndrew was absent from the hearing, 17 Chicago school teachers, principals and district superintendents, were present to call him a "Simon Legree . . . a faker . . . a cruel task master," because he had obliged them to exact perfect answers from their pupils before permitting the pupils to continue to subsequent lessons...
...Ford's opening reply, obviously written by his Voltaire-tongued chief counsel, Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, said that Mr. Sapiro was "a grafter, faker, fraud and cheat"; that his unprofessional acts and conduct have "rendered him obnoxious to the nostrils of American farmers...