Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boastful William Bioff, who lives at pseudo-swank Malibu Beach, drives a sleek Fierce-Arrow, frequents hotspots on his $110 a week, $12 a day expenses, bragged that I.A.T.S.E. had cost film producers $6,000,000 a year. Said Bioff: "Communist groups . . . are responsible for charges . . . under investigation here." The audience booed. "There they are," he said, "they're all Communists...
...dean of American urologists, knows of only 20 indisputable cases of true hermaphroditism, patients who had within themselves both ovaries and testes-sole and essential criteria of femininity or masculinity. All others whom he has seen in his 40 years as urological surgeon, or has read about, have been pseudo-hermaphrodites. These exhibit a most amazing variety of genital abnormalities. But on the testimony of their sex glands, no matter how rudimentary those glands might be. Dr. Young classifies them as male or female. Statistics, he notes, "indicate that pseudohermaphroditism occurs once in 1,000 persons...
...number of gestations, something occurs to interfere with the development of the accessory male or female apparatus. The only thing a doctor can do about the matter is-in embarrassing cases-to operate. Dr. Young, who has tried, finds hormone treatment of little avail at present for true or pseudo-hermaphrodites...
...American Federation of Labor's American Federationist said in its issue of September 1935 that the Bedaux system "stripped of its pseudo-technical verbiage, is nothing more nor less than a method of forcing the last ounce of effort out of workers at the smallest possible cost in wages." Next for Charles & Fern Bedaux a unique pleasure was in store-the abdicated King of England married Mrs. Simpson in their chateau in France (TIME, June 14). Later the honeymooning Duke and Duchess stayed at the Bedaux chateau in Hungary. And this week Mr. & Mrs. Bedaux landed in Manhattan charged...
Some three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, on the Monongahela side of the city which is darkened on days of east wind by smoke from the steel mills in the valley, the pseudo-Renaissance building of the Carnegie Institute stands, blackened by 40 years. There last week critics of art, newspapermen and Pittsburgh's gentlest people assembled one evening to attend a brief ceremony in memory of Andrew Carnegie, then to crowd murmuring up the Institute's broad marble stairs into 17 galleries hung with 407 paintings by artists of 13 nations. The occasion was the opening...