Word: phoney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contemporary books on Elizabethan literature range all the way from scholarly volumes, complete with footnotes and a dozen suggested readings for doubtful passages, to out & out romances telling tall tales of the Mermaid Tavern in phoney blank verse. Between these two extremes there are a few studies like Logan Pearsall Smith's On Reading Shakespeare, designed for readers who want to know what modern scholarship has unearthed, but do not want to spend their lives studying such academic posers as what Shakespeare meant by "a mermaid on a dolphin's back," or why Gabriel Harvey hated Christopher Marlowe...
Supposedly he disappeared the morning of the Harvard game, but when the opening whistle blow he was there all right. He really was taken the following spring by Harvard's Lampoon and was photographed licking the boots of John Harvard. Some said the picture was a phoney, but everybody got a laugh...
Hollywood premieres are noted for fancy clothes and phoney congratulations. The first showing of the Department of Agriculture's documentary film, The River, at the little Strand Theatre in New Orleans last week, was marked by plain clothes and sincere praise. What the audience of educators, legislators, literati and plain people saw was a motion picture of startling photographic beauty, sweeping scope and social importance. A swift cinematic history of the vast Mississippi system from pre-Columbian times to yesterday afternoon, an inventory of its bounty and its toll, a report of Government reclamation activity, The River...
...started on October 16, when, on the first page of "Notes and Coment," the New Yorker supposedly lost its illusions and declared that "the six-foot base drum in the Harvard band is a phoney." Result of this sudden and undeserved notoriety of the giant precession instrument has been a flood of publicity, news photos and wiaccracks during the last two weeks, including a mammoth burlesque of inanimate maternity by pacudo-obatririenna from Hanover before the deluge at the Dartmouth game...
...CONFESS THAT WE CAN'T EXACTLY UNDERSTAND WHAT TROTSKY AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE DRIVING AT WHEN THEY ALLY THEMSELVES WITH MR. HITLER AND OTHERS IN A FRANTIC ATTEMPT TO UPSET THE RUSSIAN APPLECART AT ANY COST. OF COURSE IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE RUSSIAN TRIALS WERE QUITE AS PHONEY AS TIME WITH PERFECTLY UNDERSTANDABLE IF SOMEWHAT UNINFORMED PREJUDICE SUGGESTS, AND IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE THAT THE WORLD WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER PLACE IF STALIN AND THE ENTIRE SOVIET GOVERNMENT WERE MURDERED AND THE U.S.S.R. BLASTED INTO DEMORALIZED CONFUSION AND THE UKRAINE GIVEN TO NAZI GERMANY AND CERTAIN CONCESSIONS...