Word: posed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hero took to his bed suffering from heart disease and a kidney ailment, on one occasion sank so low his physicians announced he would not live the night. Sufficiently recovered was the doughty 77-year-old last week to journey to New York, pose for photographers, refuse a wheel chair to attend his only surviving offspring's marriage...
...president of the New York Stock Exchange (TIME, March 21). Starting a five-to-ten year sentence for grand larceny, holding his substantial, six-foot-two figure erect and his chin lifted, Mr. Whitney-Prisoner No. 94,835-displayed such extreme fortitude that it seemed at times like a pose. He was assigned to a tiny, damp, malodorous cell whose only plumbing was a bucket and he asked for no favors. But deference, curiosity and admiration were apparent all around him. Prisoners loitered in his path, hoping to exchange a few words...
WALT WHITMAN'S POSE-Esther Shephard-Earcourt, Brace...
That Whitman might have been inspired by the powerful social movement at the time of the Civil War, that he might, for a few years, at least, have been a real poet, Author Shephard will not admit. Says she, the whole thing was a pose, based on a second-rate French novel. As a result, her book is likely to stand as a carefully documented, well worded, 453-page demonstration of its author's unfortunate inability to understand Whitman, his poems, or his times...
...March 21) you imply that there is a studied, histrionic quality in his behavior (apparently confusing Mooney with Muni). In the penultimate paragraph you dispense with implications and make the blatant statement that "Mooney ended ... as usual with a burst of tears, finally recovered enough presence of mind to pose," etc. Does this mean that a man who has not the tact, or art, to conceal his emotion on his respite from prison cannot seriously be considered a victim of injustice...