Word: faux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deficiency is in the one field in which a yachtsman would least expect it. The chapter on the actual sailing across the Atlantic relates too little of the actual competition of the race. One is curious to know why for instance the "Elena" made what appears to be a "faux pas" in strategy by her sudden shift of course the fifth day out from the Ambrose lightship. The actual racing tactics of the competitors receive very little description, yet this is supposed to be a kind of official record of the race...
...true middle ground of British opinion was perhaps taken by the Daily Chronicle, a newspaper directed by Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of Reading, and other Liberals of the vanishing Gladstonian-Asquithian stamp. "We can assure our American friends," pontificated the Chronicle, "that they ought not attribute this faux pas to wickedness, but only to the stupidity of our Ministers...
...heroic city of Mons is known to smart Belgians as the seat of a somewhat narrow-minded and Mrs. Grundyish local aristocracy. Therefore when Swedish-born Crown Princess Astrid of Belgium visited Mons some weeks ago, she was believed to have committed a thoroughgoing faux pas by producing her small gold cigaret case, at the close of a Civic High Tea, and snapping her cosmopolitan lighter...
...TIME'S press ever laid a claim to that virtue called completeness, relinquish it immediately! I was shocked, horrified, nauseated, disgusted, not to say alarmed and surprised at a certain small but ever so noticeable "faux pas" in your issue of July 16, where, on page 9, col. i, under the heading "Bandwagon" (O how it pains me to set this down!) you committed the horrible blunder of referring to Senator James Thomas (Tom Tom) Heflin -without (terribly so) the usual and customary appositional phrase which begins, "who mortally hates...
...sling to the East Side, supplanting the unlovely bulge to the back trousers pocket that had been decreed by police custom. He it was who did away with the old gangster's code, under which to pump a man's back full of soft-nose bullets had been a faux pas bordering upon actual cowardice...