Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trademark flourished. Every cowboy, fake and real, from Buffalo Bill to the Lone Ranger, wore a Stetson. After the Boer War, famed General R. S. S. Baden-Powell ordered 10,000 Stetsons for his South African police, setting the style for thousands of police and military institutions to follow (including Canada's Mounties, the Texas Rangers, Fiorello LaGuardia). The Oxford English Dictionary picked up the name Stetson as a synonym...
...Locally, the appearance of any new party aided his frenetic efforts to make dictatorship look like democracy. And internationally, he could count on some support from the Communists who control labor unions. Vicente Lombardo Toledano's C.T.A.L. (Latin American Workers' Federation) had taken in Trujillo's fake labor unions last year, was expected to give him a fresh boost of some kind any minute. Already the strong, communist-dominated Cuban Federation of Labor had promised to send delegates to Trujillo's Dominican Labor Congress...
Dinner was excellent and for nearly three hours we ate, drank and talked. I told them I had been much amused at the fact that they took me for a fake American, just as I thought they were fake Poles. They laughed, and asked about Germany. Was it true that the Russians also, like the British and Americans, were using Germans as railroad guards and policemen in their respective zones? Why did they behave so foolishly? I asked them about the elections. It was reported that they were arresting many oppositionists. Was this true? The Major shook his head: "Every...
...Besson had one foot over the window sill of his Paris flat when police broke in and collared him. The raiders also found stacks of counterfeit food and clothing coupons; a rackful of fake government rubber stamps; a veritable alchemy plant and enough pieces of gold to light the eyes of Captain Kidd...
...cartoons by "Sav" have continued in an even grander way, however, along with frequent post game extras. A couple of steals were perpetrated on Yale in its own territory of New Haven in both 1906 and 1940, "scooping" the Yale News both times. The latter was quite frankly a fake, since the reader, after being attracted by the blazing headline "HARLOWMEN THUMP BLUES," was referred for the score to a non-existent page three...