Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trickster who instantly changes costume a dozen times, plays a collapsible fiddle and an expanding guitar, withdraws at least 150 fake bananas from his capacious pockets...
...Kansas City, Mo. plump, blue-eyed Mrs. Lottie Crumley, 34, confessed to police a plan to: 1) marry an ailing pool room attendant; 2) insure him for at least $1,000; 3) kill him in a fake hold-up or automobile accident; 4) collect the insurance and pay a gunman to kill the wife of a street car motorman and; 5) marry the motorman. "I am in love with the motorman," she concluded, "and he promised to marry me." Said the motorman: "She was a pest who was riding in my car at every opportunity...
...horseplay that might add freshness and fun to their antic. Thus, as plain Kate, bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst, Miss Fontanne stalks about in a torn white gown with hair in her eyes, kicks people in the fundament, hurls bedding out a second-story window, rides a fake horse makes one exit seated backward on a donkey. Whereas most actresses play the Paduan minx as though she were a frustrated psychopath, Miss Fontanne plays her as though she were a young tilly simply spoiling for a good licking. Since for the past decade one of the most amusing...
...sooner had Representative O'Connor got well started toward headlines, investigating the mutual accusations of Representative Brewster and Brain Truster Tom Corcoran, than Senator Black stole the front page from him by a more spectacular investigation of fake telegrams from Pennsylvania (TIME, July...
Palmer also alluded to the great Lampoon fake, when they announced that one, Clarke had been named President of Harvard. He then went on to say that President Conant had in fact been an imposter since that time; now, however, the Senior Class wished to fully instal him in office. At the end of his speech he pointed out that the future of Harvard depended on the activities of Mr. Apted, head of the Yard police. Because of the importance of this office, he raised Mr. Apted to the station of Major-General, and at the close of his speech...