Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virpetentes mercenariae. The pseudo-glamour-girls. Unlike their classmates, these attend classes wearing earnings, high heels, but not sweaters. Some of them are popular...
Whether or not Mr. Joseph Undergraduate knows that the little balconies on the new Rare Book Library were inspired by 19th century Chinese Chippendale, or whatever he thinks about the take chimney and pseudo-balustrades skirting the roof, he will have no doubt, if curious enough to glance inside after the formal opening two months hence, that the building's interior looks as old as the ancient volumes it houses...
...experiment was Coventry, whose City Architect Donald Edward Evelyn Gibson has produced a set of plans. Last week some of his sketches (see cuts) arrived in the U.S. To disciples of Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, Architect Gibson's classic-revival façades and pseudo-Roman columns looked disappointingly conservative. But he had laid out his future Coventry on spacious, parklike lines, put huge squares and fountains where crowded slums and shopping districts once knotted Coventry's busy traffic...
Archbishop Beckman denounced the "dictatorship pseudo-officially canonized by a brother cleric"-a reference to Bishop Hurley's suggestion that President Roosevelt alone should decide upon U.S. entry into the war. He assailed the practice of "the secular and even the Catholic press to place official interpretations on the pronouncements of clerics newly returned from abroad" (i.e., Bishop Hurley, who until last fall was stationed at the 'Vatican). He bemoaned the fact that "sadly enough the flagpole on the White House lawn has never lacked for clerical adornment...
...British citizen and a believer in and worker for tangible democracy as opposed to the pseudo brand favoured by the small but tragically influential clique of imperialists which "runs" the British Empire, I share your resentment and dismay that such an extremely undemocratic and reactionary person as Halifax should be an honoured guest at Harvard's Commencement...