Word: impostor
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Hearts Are Trumps. It develops that Arlette, delectable French mademoiselle (Vivian Martin), has married a count who proves to be an impostor. Since she married him for his title, this is inconvenient. She thereupon seeks out the genuine count and informs him that through some strange quirk of French law she is in reality married to him. He accommodatingly marries her and clears up the situation. The French are a funny nation, but lately such businesses as assignations between unmarried ladies and gentlemen in romantic chateaux, peculiarities of love, and the like, find so many counterparts in the Bronx...
Felon ; fraud ; frozen snake ; gambler ; henchman of a notorious character ; humbug ; hypocrite ; impending insanity ; impostor...
...gasped as the Premier calmly admitted that he believes the offer of peace made by Krim through one Captain Gordon Canning (TIME, Jan. 4) to be genuine, thus reversing the Quai d'Orsay's original contention that Captain Canning could not be dealt with because he might be an impostor. The Chamber sat up very straight and pricked its ears as M. Briand went on to imply that France and Spain expect to end the Moroccan war next spring with a complete victory over Abd-el-Krim. Well pleased, Deputies voted another 400 million francs for the expenses...
...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...