Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There they lived in pathetic fake grandeur on a bourgeois $40,000 a year-eating more fish than meat, traveling in state in a motorbus, scrimping so as to surround themselves with a bevy of hair-combers and coat-holders-always playing at monarchy with Otto. They addressed him "Your Imperial Highness." In the nursery his seven little brothers and sisters bowed and curtsied...
...What Germans, to British horror, think of Jews, Britons think of the entire working class. Symptom: fake "eugenists" who glorify the bourgeoisie, pretend to prove the biological inferiority of workers...
...wide-open places. There she gets mixed up with a Masked Bandit, who turns out to be Joseph Calleia disguised as a cagoulard. Flower Belle's throaty account of their first meeting: "I was in a tight spot, but I managed to wiggle out of it." She also fakes a marriage with Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields) because she thinks his bag of fake money is real, substitutes a goat for herself in the nuptial chamber when she finds...
...Congressional Record certain letters which seemed to show that Chairman Martin Dies was friendly to the Silvershirts. Alleged author of the letters: Leader Pelley. Congressman Hook, opposed to continuation of the Dies Committee, waved this evidence under the nose of Congress. Almost immediately the let ters were branded as fake. David Mayne, Pelley agent in Washington, admitted forging them. Thereupon Mr. Hook withdrew his charges, grudgingly apologized. The affair reminded everybody of the question: Where was William Pelley? Particularly, Committeeman Jerry Voorhis wanted to know. He had long been anxious to question Pelley. Presto! Mr. Pelley leaped into view, right...