Word: impostor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reporters, well-pleased, withdrew. As the door clicked behind them, the young man leaped from his couch, began hurriedly to dress. Then he skulked to the deck and vanished down the gangplank. He, nameless practical joker, was an impostor. The real George Gershwin was in the smoking-room...
...require applicants from abroad to be citizens of the United States, and other states are contemplating similar action. Certainly citizenship, or at least a declaration of intention, should be required. The public needs protection against the incompetent or undesirable physician from abroad no less than against the medical impostor at home...
Platon, picturesque Archbishop of the Orthodox (Russian) Church in the U. S., has been unfrocked by Moscow ecclesiastics, and by them deprived of all authority in this world or the world-to-come, by them branded as impostor. But Platon remains in New York-the unfrocking obviously cannot be literal. He remains and continues to be one of the most successfully advertised clericals in the country...
...bending of star rays out of their normal paths by the sun's influence, when Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, U. S. N., astronomer at the Mare Island Navy Yard, issued a statement regretting Dr. Campbell's action and denouncing Dr. Einstein as an impostor and plagiarist...