Word: faux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herr Hitler is surely in need of a few scholarly advisers to save him from faux pas and Dummheiten [stupidities]. Unwittingly he has conferred royal titles on every last German Jew by his decree that all males must take the name Israel and all females the name Sarah...
Florence, Rome and Naples are being turned inside out for the Führer's cold eyes. Tons of sweet oil are poured on the creaking Rome-Berlin axis to keep it cool. But the alliance is unnatural. It is a faux ménage after all. The two people will never pull together. The Teuton looks down on a canaille of unwashed peasants; the Italian recoils from the Nordic boor whose barbarous jargon hurts Dantesque eardrums. The two flags cannot wave together for long. Compared with the noble Roman fasces, Hitler's Aryan swastika is a scrawl...
Still his mother's son, Johnny Goodman refuses to be lionized, particularly by the Omaha bourbons in whose company he feels uncomfortable lest he make a faux pas such as saying "amachure" instead of "amateur." Amateur or amachure, he is the best his sport has produced in the U. S. in a decade...
...same day that each has captured a town, although this sometimes means holding up news for a day or two to let one of the generals catch up with the other. Last week General Isogai was reported furious because Tokyo had not observed this etiquette but had made the faux pas of announcing that General Itagaki captured Paoting recently on the day he took it, instead of holding the news for release two days later simultaneously with news that General Isogai had taken Tsangchow. Japanese in Tientsin, where the conventions were properly observed, learned of and celebrated both victories...
...stately lady, and then tries to get her steel man too, and who ogles and languishes in the voluptuous fashion burlesqued by Miss West. But Leon Belieres endears himself to a new audience as the roly-poly chocolate-maker, the ambitious father of the duke-catcher, whose garrulity and faux pas are always impairing his daughter's chances...