Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal unions. Thus, the offspring, besides being unique in look, are socially stigmatized; at best they must live with the inferior group. In America mulattoes have increased rapidly, so that now only one-fourth of the Negro population is full-blooded. To discourage marriages between Negroes and Whites a pseudo-scientific propaganda has appeared which underlines the supposed bad effects of crossing. But scientists doubt if mulattoes are inferior; among Indians they have found that mixed bloods show less sterility and greater vitality than pure bloods...
Waikiki Wedding (Paramount) exhibits Bing Crosby crooning pseudo-Hawaiian ditties through a wreath to the accompaniment of innumerable hula-hulas. As Tony Marvin, he is the indolent press-agent of Imperial Pineapple, spends his time lolling on his schooner with a hillbilly called Shad Buggle (Bob Burns). One of Marvin's sporadic publicity ideas is to choose a "Pineapple Girl" who would come to Hawaii for three weeks, syndicate her enthusiastic impressions. Winner is one Georgia Smith (Shirley Ross) of Birch Falls, Iowa, who wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails...
...philosophy appears generously interspersed with his more general contemplations. His theory of the significance of Time and the possibilities of immortality, his pipe-dream of a pseudo-socialistic Utopia, his defense of the arts, all arouse us to thoughts which perhaps had never before crossed our mind. We find ourselves constantly looking away from the printed page, staring into space to work out in our own mind the meaning and value of his words. And, strangely enough, we are more than half the time in agreement with...
...shipped after her from Cannes. Riviera friends said she planned to look over French châteaux with a view to rental while Edward keeps looking over Austrian castles. Meanwhile the Duke was said excitedly by the Philadelphia Record to have a rental option on The Cloisters, an elaborate pseudo-Tudor estate near Baltimore...
...feature at the University is a pseudo-detective drama called "Sinner Take All," and there is no question in this reviewer's mind as to the justice of this phrase. Sinners or anybody else can have every foot of film used in producing the atrocity. Bruce Cabot as the ace detective does a characteristic bit of ham acting, and were it not for the somewhat attractive features of Margaret Lindsay, even sinners would have no part...