Word: poseur
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...friends of Lawrence were asked to rebut its accusations. Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Enquiry, by Novelist Richard Aldington, says without mincing words that, far from being a hero, Lawrence of Arabia was a misbegotten fraud, a perverted charlatan, a pretentious demagogue, possibly a homosexual, certainly a poseur, a liar and a plain fake. The effect, as one paper put it, was "as if someone charged that Nelson knew nothing about the sea." "Is this the end of a legend?" asked a sign printed in scarlet letters in the window of Foyle's, London's leading bookstore...
...Splendid Poseur, by M. M. Marberry. How Joaquin Miller, the "Byron of the Rockies," persuaded his generation that he was a poet (TIME...
...Splendid Poseur, by M. M. Marberry. How Joaquin Miller, the "Byron of the Rockies," persuaded his generation that he was a poet (TIME...
...Splendid Poseur, by M. M. Marberry...
...Splendid Poseur, by M. M. Marberry...