Word: phoney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That's just what the Editor is asking me to do--be a spy. He's been working on this thing for a couple of months, sending phoney letters from an outfit called the North American Photograph Service to Tom Gerber, Editor-in-Chief of the Dartmouth Daily...
...know there is much he can do, like to tell us whether the Daily Dartmouth is putting out a phoney issue, but one must be subtle about spying...
...were aimed "at the restoration of multilateral trade, which is a system upon which British commerce essentially depends." Lord Beaverbrook had argued that Britain could get along by trading in her own sterling area. Keynes's crushing comment: "I have never heard of statistics one-fiftieth part so phoney...
...News scorns reformers, and flaunts the details of Manhattan's juiciest scandals with a self-righteousness that does not conceal a smirk. Its general attitude toward manners & morals is the tough kid's jeer: if they're good they're probably phoney and certainly ridiculous...
Expertly sandwiched between the pratfalls and the broad pie-throwing burlesque of suburban manners lies a richer comedy idea-the alchemy by which a phoney hero is transmuted from the base metal of conventional heroics to the pure gold of true heroism...