Word: pretenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jolly good remarks" on all subjects. Samples: "I believe our taste in some matters is not as good as ihat of other nations, for example our homes, which are exceedingly ugly. . . . No class of Englishmen have a monopoly on any virtue or vice. . . . Women are frauds because they pretend to be the artistic sex, which is untrue, since there are no really great feminine poets and artists, while women musicians spend their time playing and singing music written by men. . . . Education exists to prevent people from being vulgar, stupid and ignorant." On one occasion, lecturing to his students, he proved...
Montmartre is better of in not having to pretend to be shocked by the nude oddities of Broadway. Even if beauty is better bare, the "girls" might prove disappointing. And the men-. So the good dame Guinan and the "girls" will have lost only a point or two of culture. They will have gained publicity enough to assure them the position in the esteem of polite society which they would otherwise have had to earn for themselves by choice remarks about the Arc de Triomphe or the Ritz Bar, casual commentaries on the quality of Crevisses a in Nage...
...Pact "renounces war as an instrument of national policy." It has been accepted by almost all nations, including Russia. Before it was formulated M. Litvinov proposed a pact of "total disarmament" among all nations (TIME, Dec. 12, 1927). He was called a trickster. Russia, it was said, would only pretend to disarm under such a pact. Next year M. Litvinov was back with a plan for "partial disarmament" by all nations (TIME, April 2, 1928). Again he was sat upon, sneered...
...that is best in connection with the League-and when we say that in these days, it means all that is best for the peace of the world and for harmony in international relationships. "In view of what has taken place it would be idle for us to pretend to each other that the position of M. Briand remains exactly the same as it was. ... I have risen for the purpose of expressing what I believe to be the unanimous desire of this gathering-as it would be the unanimous desire of a larger gathering like the Assembly...
...gadfly for the Baltimore Sun, buzzed angrily: "There is more bluff, sham, false pretense, faking, cheap posturing, posing and futility here[in Washington] than any place else. The bulk of the birds who fly about in the Washington aviary are not nearly as beautiful or as good as they pretend-or as the newspapers picture. . . . What they want is to be taken by the newspapermen as seriously as they take themselves. What they don't want is to have a newspaperman go behind the front and tell what sort of men they really are without their false whiskers...