Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knowing full well that this suggestion may never be read by the powers-that-be, I think that one of the networks should give Mildred an exclusive fifteen minute sustaining program, preferably with Teddy Wilson's small Cafe Society band. Certainly when a pseudo-jazz program like "Chamber Music of Basin Street" can build up a tremendous following, a little decent jazz ought to get along. The beauty of the Bailey-Wilson combination, especially, is that you needn't be an ardent swing addict to appreciate and enjoy their music...
...simple, but what keeps them waiting in line at the Met is the hilarious dialogue which both rolls 'em in the aisles and keeps them chuckling the morning after. The acting throughout the picture is superb with Ginger playing her three-faced part without dropping a stitch and the pseudo-sophisticated cadets, just Sue-Sue's age, throw a line at Ginger which would shame anything around the Square for pure brass and military strategy. Benchley's all too short appearance packs into a few shots what some comedians needs a lifetime to get across...
Discoverer of the mechanism of sulfa-therapy is Bacteriologist Paul Fildes of London. Certain bacteria, he found, mistake the sulfa-drugs for a vitaminlike substance-probably of the vitamin B complex-which they need for growth. Consuming the pseudo-vitamin instead of the real, the bacteria fail to multiply, so that the blood's white corpuscles can easily destroy their limited numbers. How slight is the lethal error which the bacteria make is shown by the similar chemical names: sulfanilamide is para-amino-benzene-sulfonamide; the growth factor is para-amino-benzoic acid...
...three designers turn out furniture that looks very different, but they are furiously united on one point: their detestation of the reproductions and pseudo-antiques now being turned out by the big furniture manufacturers and bought by the public. Says Robsjohn-Gibbings...
Blasting the "synthetic and stumbling leadership of the Republican Party in these desperate times," Mr. Murphy declared: "There is no program worthy of the great tradition of the Republican Party in a period when the nation is in dire peril." All he could see was a record of "pseudo-leadership, petty partisanship, mediocre talents, personal and political aggrandizement at the sacrifice of principle." The Republican Party, said he, had been betrayed by its leaders...