Word: pinchbeck
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...never got Lou Tellegen into such extraordinary poses as those he strikes for himself on the stage. His latest part, created in 1915 by another famed matinee idol, Leo Ditrichstein, is the sort that Actor Tellegen, self-confessedly a mighty pre-War wooer, must adore. Action of this old pinchbeck piece takes place in an operatic troupe. The leading member of the company (Mr. Tellegen) falls in love with a young prima donna who has already pledged herself to his understudy. It takes the understudy's mother, a former friend of the great lover, and a great deal...
James John ("Jimmy") Walker, New York City's glib, pinchbeck little Mayor, had to appear in court last week. He was not on trial personally, just a witness. Yet he was on trial politically because the case was that of a city magistrate charged with buying his position from Tammany Hall, of which Mayor Walker is currently the chief official product. The scandal of George F. Ewald, judge of the Traffic Court, was another climax in a long series of Democratic scandals which mischance and political adversaries had been exposing all through Mayor Walker's administration. Leading...
...discuss the situation in a scathing paragraph: "The actors, the mimes, and the deceiving and infamous joculators are given money to get drunk on, while the poor of the Church are dying in the agonies of hunger " It was a pretty pass. People, apparently, would rather hear some pinchbeck fellow gurgle a roulade than listen to the best constructed sermon. When, therefore, the guildsmen of prosperous towns began to give simple dramas, inspired by the magnificent theatricality of Mass, and evolved from Bible story, prelates everywhere came gradually to value their spiritual uses. Soon Herod was thumping his spear...
...learns to drink, spoon and wench. His mind takes the shape of a pinchbeck, free-lunch conquistador's. He borrows a car, skids into a tight situation, scurries from town like a rodent...
...paint corrodes and spoils the bourgeois beneath. No bourgeois needs to be told that he is as good as the next man and a good deal better, and though as poeta nascitur, etc., a man can't make himself a gentleman, he can become the pinchbeck imitation thereof, and if he cannot attract notice in one way he can in another. No one would bear any ill-will to a man who snorted in chapel through ignorance, but if he continued to disgust a crowd of men because he thought it funny, he would be in a very different position...