Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...back of that cover the burlesques run true to best form. The complete number, indeed, is successfully a pseudo-Cosmopolitan all over--except, perhaps, for the advertising pages. The page most certain to hand Lampy customers a laugh is its rotogravure of "A Parisian Beauty." Mr. Wilson himself, we are sure, would enjoy it for light reading in his current convalescence...
Underneath the action of the pseudo "strike breakers" who have been operating switchboards at the Cambridge exchange the past week, lie principles of great importance to the University. Three possible motives may have actuated them; that they would derive amusement from the procedure; that they would be of service in handling emergency calls, or that they believed the strike to be wrong...
...lapse of three years, is one more indication that conditions at Cambridge are slowly swinging back to the normal plane of before the war days. It has been long since the curtain of the Pudding stage has creaked up on a much rouged and closely shaved chorus of pseudo-girls, and since basso-voiced heroines and sotto-voiced prompters have held an undergraduate audience thrilled by the unrehearsed actions of a Pudding cast. "Crowns and Clowns" will be a welcome visitor to the University...
Thursday, January 4: "The Pseudo-Classical Background...
...find it good, and unusually good. The technique is not everywhere faultless; but in what poet, save the very greatest, does one find it so? Ask the scholars. The point of view is prevailingly the point of view of youth; but it is not anywhere naif, or impertinent, or pseudo-cynical. The literary vices of youth are miraculously absent. The tone is curiously sustained, too, without monotony; as if the contributors had been real collaborators, such brothers-in-blood' as have sprung up, all along the way, in English and French literature. To one who reads faithfully, each year...