Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action. Three men had tried to extort $10,000 from Dr. Jacob Wachsman. Dr. Wachsman happens to be honorary physician of the New York Detectives' Association. He telephoned his detective friends and they promptly threw a network of espionage around him. A detective was his chauffeur. Detectives with fake ailments haunted his waiting room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors' clothing. As soon as the money changed hands, detectives shot the tires off the crooks...
...Orthopedist Russell Plato Schwartz in Rochester, N. Y., Dr. Schwartz puts hobnails on their shoes and has them walk over an electrified metallic floor, thus making an electrical transcription of their gait. The record tells whether a person limps, walks unevenly or has other faults of locomotion, reveals fake claims of injury after accidents. It has proved that very high heels give the wearer unstable posture and tend to make her walk on the ball and toes of the foot. The recording device, which Dr. Schwartz calls an electrobasograph, indicates how an infantile paralysis cripple improves or fails to improve...
...Arthur J. Hoffman and one George Goodman, accountants, for grand larceny. Working on one of many baffling angles, some of the 65 detectives assigned to the case discovered that Lee Weinstein, who succeeded a previously murdered secretary of Old Man Ridley, had used Accountants Hoffman & Goodman to witness a fake will which the half-blind. 88-year-old eccentric millionaire had been tricked into signing. The will, modeled after that of the late Dwight Whitney Morrow which was published in 1931, bequeathed $200,000 to Weinstein, Hoffman and Goodman were also involved in a deal in which Old Man Ridley...
...course, you know this is all a fake. I didn't just walk into this picture and find myself talking. It was all pre-arranged and we just rehearsed...
...Mario into her toils, and meekly proposes that he marry her after divorcing his wife. Aline, aware of all, saves Mario, their home, and the situation by a ruse, so that the couple is enabled at the end to live happily ever after amidst a brood of children and fake scenery...