Word: impostor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that "there is no Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern." So had a search of the Almanack de Gotha and inquiries at the U.S. State Department. For good measure, the States also put in a transatlantic call to Hechingen, Germany, where Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm himself denounced "Otto Wilhelm" as an impostor...
Samuel Cooper once said, "Any man who claims to be a Bostonian and can't tell what the Faneuil Hall weather-vane is, must be an impostor." Faneuil Hall later became known as "the grasshopper market," but no one was quite sure why Shem Drowne had chosen that particular design. The story goes, however, that one day in his youth Shem struck up a conversation with a boy who was chasing a grasshopper. The boy took him home for dinner, and later Shem was adopted by the boy's parents. Years later, remembering the grasshopper that had brought about...
...work of a grotesque tribal idol described in the book of Numbers as God, who resolves to destroy the human race, but is placated by the smell of roast meat," the Darwinians decided that "the 39 articles were reduced to absurdity . . . Hell was abolished. Jehovah was exposed as an impostor whose real name was Jarvey . . . Talk of emptying the baby out with the bath! . . . Herod's massacre of the innocents was a joke in comparison...
...hour," wrote Historian Edward Gibbon, "the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins. . . . Their confidence was founded on the prophecy of an enthusiast or an impostor . . . that an angel would descend from heaven with a sword in his hand, and would deliver the empire...
...Ready. In Pittsburgh, the burial of Harvey Campbell was called off when the "deceased" showed up before the funeral, denounced the corpse as an impostor...