Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it will attract too much publicity of the wrong kind. It is not strange that the football players in football romances get away with one scene, at the most, of studying, but very strange that the public has not yet grown sick of films that mix a little fake football, some wishy-washy cracks, and high school romance...
...cheered up Immensely by the arrival of the "Satrev" for November 21. The spectacle of somebody having the guts to come Right Out in Public and say that Eugene O'Neill was just a fake philosopher Indicates that there is some critical honesty left in the world. The November 21 was a swell issue anyway, regardless of your piece, but plus your piece, it should become a book collectors' item...
...when he went to the north woods to photograph lumberjacks riding falling trees or breaking up log jams, that these daring practices, familiar to preceding generations of lumberjacks, are scorned by contemporaries as unsophisticated generosity to their employers. He had to return to Hollywood to recruit a crew of fake lumberjacks with enough courage to do what real lumberjacks are supposed to do. Included in the uproar concerning production of Come and Get It was the story which billed Actress Andrea Leeds as Hollywood's "kiss champion'' after she had spent more than nine hours kissing three...
...wife a telegram: "Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?" Another time Shaw persuaded him to take part in a cinema, saying it was being produced by Barrie. Chesterton let himself be dressed in a cowboy suit, submitted to being rolled in a barrel, roped over a fake precipice, ordered to make faces at the camera, before he was politely informed that the whole scheme had been dropped. When he heard that William Archer was also hood winked he was content. "God forbid," he said, "that anyone should say I did not see a joke, if William Archer...
...turn yields to an Oligarchy, which finally starts the process all over again by getting around to Democracy, the crisis comes when "the people look to their state to give them more wages, higher standards of living. . . . And so the time comes when the state must make fake money. First it is called 'inflation.' Then, because that is unpopular, 'devaluation.' Now they are calling it 'dilution.' But it is all the same thing -fake money. Thus you have insecurity. Savings become illusory. Since nature is aristocratic, the valuable part of the population is reduced...