Word: impostor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Complaining that he had thus been branded "an impostor, liar, falsifier and humbug unworthy of serious consideration," Matador Franklin demanded $300,000 damages from Columbia Pictures...
Said Dean Virginia Crocheron Gilder-It has been a varied adventure from ringing doorbells at strange houses search of a few dollars, and being almost turned out as an impostor to securing two millions from one generous donor...
...musical piece for the first time. Lillian Emerson, another legitimate actress, is teamed with Harry Richman, the only man on Broadway who can lisp without exciting suspicion. Bob Hope, the irrepressible juvenile of Roberta, displays a pretty wit. And as a freak draw the management has hired Impostor Harry Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), who made a vaudeville appearance last year after a session in jail climaxed a series of transatlantic voyages in stowage. He impersonates himself as a high society gatecrasher...
...Socialist Norman Thomas said he would march with the Waldorf picketers, but he did not. Writer Fannie Hurst said she would be there too, but she was not. Only celebrities found in the scraggly, vociferous vortex which circled the Waldorf as the week closed were Inquisitor Samuel Seabury and Impostor Harry ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff") Gerguson. Mr. Seabury was going inside for dinner. Mr. Gerguson was bound he alone knew whither...
...refused to be baptized a Christian. All over Egypt pious Moslems cried out in fury. The Arab Press squirmed with headlines like a parade of Arabic sea serpents: poor children were lured into schools and clinics for conversion; missionaries made use of hypnotism: French Catholics called Mohammed an impostor and vilified his faith. Two of the biggest newspapers are owned by Christians, nevertheless dared not let themselves be completely outdone in anti-Christian fury. While the Press squirmed, a committee petitioned fat King Fuad to "save Moslems from the evil intent of the missionaries'' and in particular discontinue...