Word: phoney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stood with German officers in full view of poilus on the other side fishing, sawing wood, washing clothes. They heard stories and saw signs of badinage between the lines. Net effect of what they wrote was to underscore Senator Borah's amazing crack about World War II being "phoney...
...nothing strange about the correspondents' impressions, and probably a minimum of censor coloration. The potency of the German positions is unquestioned, and official French communiques for the days the newsmen were on tour confirmed the quietness which they reported. Fact also is that this war is no -"phoney," but simply a war far different from any ever fought. At the end of its first 30 days, perspective brought the answers to a lot of questions asked by laymen about World...
Though he has neither Lardner's indescribable humor nor Hemingway's Paris-found sense of style, John O'Hara ranks with them as a first-class, far from phoney reporter. Appointment in Samarra, his first and best novel, was good enough and true enough to make anything he wrote thereafter worth reading. Probably most worth reading are his acid short stories...
Newly signed by M-G-M for Maisie, Cinemactress Sothern shed the glad rags and phoney attitudes of her new-rich cinema past, became her North Dakota self. As Maisie, she is a healthier Jean Harlow, an untarnished Mae West. Whether she can keep her natural pewter shine is a question. Her next scheduled venture: How to Get Tough...
...Hecht has heretofore meant novels like Erik Dorn, Count Bruga, A Jew in Love-gaudy, swashbuckling, ranting books, splashed with dead-pan vehemence, a sort of Ouija-board mysticism, a little sour cream of human kindness-all with a suggestion of having been written by a slightly phoney, Dostoievskian pixy...