Word: phoney
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...rule by which he picked all WPA foremen. The rule: "A good Party worker makes an excellent public servant." "It is amazing to me," roared Harry Hopkins, denying the charges in full, "that the Republican National Committee will permit Joe Grundy's henchmen in Pennsylvania to peddle their phoney affidavits and second-hand gossip. . . ." Sample Hopkins' refutation: In Delaware County, where Harry H. Ball implied that only Democrats could get supervising jobs, only 54% of 552 administrative and supervising employes are registered Democrats. Harry H. Ball, an active Republican, told friends he had been promised...
...Long before I reached Delegate Dimond's identification of Wilbur Pledge Brown, I had identified the gentleman as Wilbur Pledge, phoney-check artist and alleged newspaper...
...have a phoney check drawn on the Globe National Bank of Denver, Colo, and passed by this notorious crook...
...comfortably on my plush pillows and tell others what to do to be happy, but I will be able to tell anyone anything, when I am able to meet them, eye to eye, on an equal footing. ... In case you think that's a phoney halo I'm trying to tie up on my bean, this is Elsie. I just want to be happy, and I'm going to be, as soon as I can do everything for everybody that I want to do without some one thinking, 'I wonder what she gets for doing that...
...Early next spring, Mrs. Grace Coolidge will say farewell to her native New England to become the bride of Calvin Coolidge's onetime White House secretary, Everett Sanders."-New York Daily News. Said Son John Coolidge: "It's a phoney. . . . There won't be any such marriage...