Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slander, unadulterated slander," was the tone of all the aggrieved swamis who called. Although they admitted Friedkin might be a fake, they one and all maintained that they themselves are representatives of an ancient and honorable art, "the world's oldest legitimate science...
...Hollywood, fewer props for horror pictures: no more rubber for prehistoric monsters, masks, cobwebs (for haunted houses), fake alligators, fake snakes...
...Roosevelt buttons which Party workers presumably could not persuade anybody to wear. The Colonel did not apologize when the Chicago Times ran a full-page spread in which the Tribune's ragpicker re-enacted the button scene which he claimed a Tribune reporter paid him 25? to fake. Nor did the Colonel try to collect a $5,000 reward by the Times for proof of a Tribune headline and story that Moscow had U.S. Reds to back Roosevelt...
...meet Inspector Herman Lang, employed by the makers of the famed U.S. secret Norden bombsight. He was to set up a radio transmitter and operate it. So, weighted down with instructions, fake names, five messages in microfilm hidden in his watch, and $1,000 for a starter, William Sebold returned to Manhattan...
What they had been through was fake - a recorded A.R.P psychological test to see whether familiarity with the noises of air raids would make air raids themselves seem less terrifying to sensitive people. But even A.R.P. did not think that the raids these people would go through this year would be easier to take than last year...