Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bursting with filial pride. "I know enough about painting," said he, "to know he doesn't know a damn thing about it. If I gave him a single lesson he would be terrible. He's one of the few real primitives. I know he's no fake, as some so-called primitives are. He's to painting what Saroyan is to writing: neither knows a thing about his craft; each does a damn good...
Amendment. In Albany, a bill to make it a misdemeanor to report a fake robbery "to a police officer or any other person" was hastily amended when Senator Lazarus Joseph pointed out that "if I should lose some money in a poker game and explain to my wife I had been robbed, she could put me in jail just to get even...
...best-seller needs: an alliterative title, a fat part for Tyrone Power when it reaches the films, and the ingredients of what critics like to call a rattling good yarn. It is set in the 18th Century, sauced with its political restiveness, and skillfully served up in a fake-archaic, first-person prose that has fibre enough to support a novel twice as serious...
Three years ago the Corporation voted a flat and unanimous "no" to the proposal of paid-for sportscasting of Vern Struck's fake spinners. Its argument was the usual fear of "commercialization." But the sale of radio rights is not the type of "commercialization" to which there can be logical protest. Purchase of players is not wanted and is quite distinct from the sale of the entertainment they provide. The Corporation's old argument ignores the fact that football at Harvard is already a business-a big business which sells higher-priced seats than any theatre in town, rents expensive...
When Doe tries to warn his convention, the publisher exposes him as a fake and his private storm troopers turn the crowd against Doe. Outcast, Doe decides that he can only convince his following of his sincerity by really jumping off the City Hall tower on Christmas...