Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever the reason for these mental illnesses, the greatest danger lies in the lure of fake remedies; for the sick man is an all-too-easy victim of the first best quack who happens to cross--and bar--his way; he believes in miracles as the drowning man believes in his straw. Harvard has its quack doctors in plenty, its tutoring schools perched along Massachusetts Avenue. Sick people flock in, sick people flock out. Liberal education at its best...
Advice to travelers: Don't be snobbish about Baedekers; you don't have to obey their stars. Don't think of city festivals as fake tourist atmosphere; they are your chance to see revealed the collective subconscious of the population. Choose a restaurant in a working-class neighborhood; get yourself accepted there as "an unobtrusive bastard in a kindly family." Make love to a neighborhood girl. Don't be squeamish about using keyholes...
From a typographical standpoint the fake issue of the News was considered more convincing than that of the Record; however, Gayle Alken III, former CRIMSON editor who is now at Yale and on the News staff, declared for publication that the fraudulent CRIMSON "is the best-looking Yale News we've ever...
...Yale News crashed through at midgame with their second journalistic soup of the day, a fake issue of the Crimson announcing that President of Chicago, had been named to replace him. Earlier in the day, the Elm City typographers had announced Harlow's resignation...
Three Harvard plays, including a fake kick a la Statue of Liberty, were stopped cold, and Spreyer again used the wind to good advantage on a fifty-yard punt to Burr...