Word: simulacrums
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Maxwell Struthers Burt of Philadelphia and Wyoming knows how to write an almost convincing simulacrum of a first-class novel. Self-assured but not glib, he respects and admires the English language, has a plentiful supply of ideas, puts enough complexity and contradiction into his characters to keep them from being stereotypes. It is like the creation of a culture pearl: an irritant is carefully introduced into the oyster, which then obediently builds up a globe of pearly substance, as smooth and gleaming to the casual glance as the real thing...
...Kentucky's primary was a simulacrum-with a reverse result-of last year's Barkley-Chandler fight which Senator Barkley (and WPA) won. Last week the Chandler man, Lieut.-Governor Keen Johnson, beat the Barkley (and C. I. O.) man, John Young Brown, for Democratic nomination to the Governorship...
...While hordes of moppets in San Francisco's Chinatown did a thriving business shining shoes, promising to turn over their nickels to the China war relief fund, their elders gathered in St. Mary's Square to gaze at a massive, glittering simulacrum of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the Christian scholar and republican hero who ended Manchu rule in China in 1912. Nearly 20 feet tall on its pedestal, the figure has head, hands and feet of red granite, body of stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided...
...complained of blurred vision, feared she was going blind. Examination showed that her eyes were excellent. It turned out that she was nursing a deep hatred for a man who visited her mother, that "the very sight of him" annoyed her so much as to produce an hysterical simulacrum of failing eyesight...
...committees and the hell of oblivion in the House last week. Well did its 432 members know that all the session's important legislation would originate not in Congress but at the White House, whence would come, week by week, the order of business. Nevertheless, tradition dictated a simulacrum of consequential activity...