Word: poseur
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...Baroness Wrangel, General Wrangel's wife, in my house twice during the past four years and have received letters from her during that time. I am of course much interested to know whether not only myself but many, many others have been imposed upon by a poseur or whether there is some explanation, which I think must be the case. She has told us the complete story, the retreat of the White Army, the escape from the Crimea, the hiding of her jewels in her young child's rag doll, of the sinking of the Lucullus, which...
...misunderstanding, as the Good Book says. What Good Book? I fancy you'll find it on the police docket. And that there may be no misunderstanding. I am not the man who stuffs birds, nor the Crime colyumist who stuffs Harvard. I came in here while the real poseur was out astonishing the natives of Hanover, and I haven't the manner, no, nor the acquaintance with Central Square duennas, required to write this column...
...claimed, that he had been quite honest. He is a man without taste; that was clearly demonstrated when he recently invited God to strike him dead in Kansas City (TIME, May 3). But his books have shown just as clearly that he is neither a stupid man nor a poseur. Whether, this time, he were sincere or not, nobody could decide, but everyone said something or other...
...mincing pedestrian with yellow hair all abroad and much thin-piping, decadent erudition. His poems and essays of the period (1919-22) run salt and shallow. Then he settled in the Tyrol, wandering north into Germany, south to Capri and Sicily. Seacoast of Bohemia (1924) gave evidence of a poseur shedding his false skins. Now, at 29, he seems to have written out of his bones...
...newest biography of R. L. S., styled a "critical biography", and written by Mr. John A. Steuart, sets out two really new ideas about Stevenson. The first is that Stevenson often wrote under the influence of drugs, the second that he was consistently an egotistic poseur. All his life he tried to be as different from other people as possible, not hesitating to pose even before his few intimates. In the face of the rather sordid "underworld" life which Stevenson led in his early years in Edinburgh and London. Mr. Steuart does not, like the more obsequious biographers, turn aside...