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Word: pseudo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was an old trick to the Apted men who warned students to beware especially of a pseudo pipe salesman and a sailor with a hard luck story, reported recently to be working the College dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO MEN CAUGHT IN YARD FOR FRAUDULENT CHARITY DRIVE | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...took Evi one pseudo suicide, a flirtation with a storm trooper and plenty of family pressure on the Führer to get Evi into the Chancellery, on whatever footing she is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: More About Evi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...worse than the average New York audience," opined Bert Lahr, star of Cole Perrier's new show "DuBarry Was a Lady," in his dressing room at the Shubert Theatre last night. "All shows these days are written for patrons of the Great White Way, and Harvard boys have their pseudo-sophistication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lahr considers Crimson Students Equal to Average Broadway Audience | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

Trombone for this blast was the Pacific, official organ of a pseudo-liberal Japanese organization called the Institute of the Pacific.* The Institute is dominated by a dynamic, humorous politician named Yusuke Tsurumi, who can write 14,000 Japanese characters by hand in one day and can talk English faster than the late Floyd Gibbons could. The Institute was probably one of the chief catalytics last September in the appointment as Foreign Minister of Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura. Such an outfit is worth listening to. It said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Dutch Tweak | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...bourgeois perils of running water, Melvyn Douglas and Paris. Unlike most pictures about Russian Reds, this one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab where it will do the most good-on the funny bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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