Word: phoney
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...Phoney Ozies think up a better gag. TIME'S correspondent can find no Ozies at No. 4 Brattle St., no Ozies in Cambridge...
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...plenty on his hands helping Franklin Roosevelt fight poliomyelitis, and Hemingway spent almost all of Ken's, eleven months' gestation visiting the war in Spain. Home from Spain and somewhat alarmed when friends pointed out to him that a Manhattan gossip sheetster had called Ken a "liberal-phoney," Hemingway asked Publisher Smart to explain in the first issue (on a page with Hemingway's story about Italian battalions in Spain) that Ernest Hemingway was a contributor, not an editor. By last week Ken's direction had largely devolved on Messrs. Smart & Gingrich with the assistance...
...centenary of his birth (1938), predicted Historian Henry Adams, science would have built "a world that sensitive and timid natures could regard without a shudder." But in 1938 science's millennium is still to seek. Shuddering harder than ever, many a modern now says science is a phoney...
...mildly amusing, but of necessity suffers from contrast with the main feature. Its theme is very familiar: villain absconds with company's funds; innocent girl shelters him; detective and girl fall in love; all ends happily. Nevertheless, the treatment is light and humorous, and Mischa Aue as a phoney count provides many a ridiculous sequence...