Word: impostor
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...becomes evident that the couple knows the old man intimately, either in memory or in imagination, because of a rape he committed (or may have committed) many years before. His intrusion first subverts, then inverts their relationship; in the end it appears that Edward is more of an impostor than the matchseller...
Second, former State Senator George Higgins, another Old Guard Republican, announced that he will run against Romney in this year's G.O.P. gubernatorial primary because "the man who sits in the executive office at Lansing and now calls himself a Republican is an impostor. He used the Republican Party to get himself elected and has abused the Republican Party ever since." Legislators, he said, "know that when I say something, they can depend on it. And that's one of the problems up there in Lansing-they can't depend on anything Romney says...
...picture there occurred a moment that stunned the Pan-Arabian world. She kissed him. Beautiful, pure, polyunsaturated Fatten had-right there on the screen-besullied herself. And not only had she kissed at all-to make it worse, she had kissed this impostor, this Oxford-accented, pseudo-Arabian, undeserving Catholic...
...conversation came in the first days of the trial-after someone purporting to be a Banner reporter had called prospective jurors to find out how they felt. When Stahlman, a crusty 64-year-old, heard of the jury tampering, he offered a $5,000 reward for arrest of the impostor. Bobby tried to dissuade him-on grounds that detailed publication of the incident might cause a mistrial. Excerpts of the conversation...
Next morning Mrs. Roosevelt denied that she had sent any such telegram; it apparently had been called into the telegraph office by an impostor. Said Eleanor: "While the sentiments might not be far away from what I think, I would never send a telegram of this sort to the Secretary of State." Just as curious as the episode itself was the editorial applause given to the fraud by the New York Times. Wrote the Times: "The Italians have a saying, 'Se non e vero, e ben trovato,' which roughly translated means: 'Even if it wasn...