Word: faux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spied a familiar face (his own), happily gave the verdict on a wax bust molded by a local sculptress named Viramani: as good as anything he'd ever seen at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. After a minor touch-up job and correction of a faux pas-the plaque at the base of the bust added a year to Nehru's 69-the present from Sculptress Viramani goes on permanent display at his home...
Some of the faux pas of which over-exuberant HSA directors were guilty included implied coercion of independent concessionaires, poor presentation of the organization's advantages, and even lowered profits as the price of membership. All this uproar came through misjudgment. Burke and the other directors believed that "our greatest problem would come from Harvard Square merchants, not from the students themselves...
Perhaps most remarkable in the case of Morgan is the refinement of taste which produced so intimate a collection, no less fine for its subdued key. So grotesque an aesthetic faux paus as the acquisitions of the William Randolph Hearst dynasty, or even as sincere but visionless an affair as the John Ringling Museum testifies to how far wrong the best intentioned affluence can go. But J. Pierpont Morgan, caring not at all for magnitude, sought quality alone...
...refused to recognize the King of a foreign power. His act is consistent with those of small and nearsighted politicians who allow themselves to be duped by their minority advisers. At a time when our Government is straining to find a solution to Middle East problems, he committed a faux pas which will be taken as an indication of a nation divided on foreign policy. I think President Eisenhower's decision to meet King Saud shows Mayor Wagner and all Americans what true statesmanship entails. LOUIS FAKHOURY Pasadena, Calif...
This touchback gave Tech an 8-7 victory, while the faux pas committed by the Crimson runners merely lessened the cross-country team's margin of victory to 14 and 50 points over Columbia and Penn respectively. The varsity...