Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relation of banking and monetary events of the last year, or again Professor Leentief's admirably lucid grouping of the agricultural relief provisions which will be useful to the reader who is still trying to form some comprehensive picture of what has already been done. The papers do not pretend, of course, to break new ground, or even to give what from the economist's point of view would be regarded as an exhaustive exposition of the matters in hand...
...impostors in religion such as pretend to personate Jesus Christ or suffer their followers to worship or pay them divine honors . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.-Chapter 235, section 72, Laws of 1898, New Jersey. This law was cited in a report filed last week in Newark by a three-man committee investigating that inexplicable Negro cultist, Major J. "Father" Divine. The committee was appointed last autumn by Judge Richard Hartshorne as a result of disorderly conduct complaints against a noisy meeting of Father Divine's Newark "Kingdom." Judge Hartshorne took no action last week, left...
...reasons for this. The first and most banal is that anything labeled inter-house is to be regarded favorably, if merely as a consolation to Mr. Harkness. Next there comes the consideration of the effect on the college. This should be beneficial if the debates do, as their advocates pretend, put the high bat on the bull session and conserve all the forensic skill hitherto wasted on the steps of Sever, in witching hour wrangles over the meaning of life, and to Jack the bartender at the Theatrical. Lastly, it is urged not without sound reason, many an unsuspected leader...
...filthy madness. Spies are doing their best, and what do they get? Carla got nothing; this was Rudi's fault. When one of Carla's accomplices shoots Rudi so that they may escape, Rudi's face brightens.--We know that they use blanks in Hollywood. But why not pretend?--"Blessings on you, Carla," says Rudi as the bullet pierces his arm, or chest... "Sooch a lock of patriotism, not to shoot the spy." The director paled. "Don't be crazy, Professor. They shot Mata Hari, and Marlene Dietrich in her spy picture. And did the public...
...received in Berlin the new Polish "Goodwill Minister," suave M. Jozef Lipski. WHAM! Enemy planes scored direct hits on Warsaw's main railway station with confetti bombs as station employes touched off cannon crackers and released a flock of pigeons. Clang! Clang! Fire engines dashed through Warsaw to pretend to put out fires which blazed on the roofs struck by confetti bombs. The crackling, roaring flames were real but they belched from flame pots always under control...