Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to brighten up austerity-ridden Britain, the Southern Region of the state-owned railway system devised a pub-on-wheels (bar car) which was supposed to be very quaint. The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside. One of the pubs-on-wheels was in service last week on the Atlantic Coast Express and seven more were being readied. They will have names like "The Bull," "The Dolphin," "The Green Man," "The White Horse...
British connoisseurs were appalled by the fakery (see cut). In a joint letter to the Times, Leigh Ashton, director of the Victoria' & Albert Museum, and other esthetes spluttered: "Reductio ad absurdum of the mania for the fake antique. These cars are ridiculous." Moaned the Manchester Guardian: "There are times when the British love of tradition seems not merely exaggerated but quite...
Minors who use fake identification to get drinks in Boston bars will be "thrown into a patrol wagon and taken to the nearest station," according to the get tough policy announced this week by Mary E. Driscoll, Chairman of the Boston Licensing Board...
Brier cited cases of minors using false birth certificates, draft cards, and even club membership cards to get drinks. Bars often accept these proofs even when they are obviously fake, he said, and sometimes ask no proof...
...When the fake photographs first appeared, U.S. newspapers were taken in, and reprinted them as news (TIME, April...