Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cured her of saying "Oo-er! Wot an 'at!" After that it was onward and upward-showgirl with C. B. Cochran and Noel Coward, playgirl with palace guardsmen and aristocrats. Trouble was that along with a pseudonym, the ex-Lily had concocted a sort of pseudo-family tree and she never knew when someone was going to cry, "Timber!" In 1933, she decided the U.S. was the best place for a self-remade girl...
...tugged at her bra, groaned. Sometimes she struck some keys with her elbow, but she never missed a note, and her hands pounded away with incredible precision. Dorothy Donegan. 32, was giving the well-heeled, well-liquored crowd just what it came for, and the Embers, Manhattan's pseudo-ranch-style jazz joint, pulsed with enthusiasm all the way up to its pseudo-adobe ceiling...
Sweet Sue Evans (Dot LP). Songstress Evans, a onetime philosophy student, runs through a collection of pretty numbers in a pale but pretty voice, occasionally accompanying herself on a lightly swinging harp. Sample saw from her pseudo-philosophical kit: "Nothing is forever, always is a lie/ I can only love...
...going to marry the hero after all. And they ought to write the moral issue out of the plot, because they handle it very clumsily, and because it does not belong in their play anyway. (A very wise old critic has remarked that sleazy sentimentality and pseudo-morality are the two worst vices of the commercial theater...
...hero is not "a common, on-the-make hustler," but an idealist and an artist. For my money, he's still a common, on-the-make hustler, loaded with moral earnestness in an attempt to season a piece of high-quality hackwork with maladroit and dubious "social comment." (This pseudo-moralism is the second-worst vice of the commercial theatre, right after the sleazy sentimentality in which Goldilocks also abounds...