Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present, when money is very generally seeking investment, the security swindler plans to reap his harvest. Already the published tax lists have provided many valued suggestions to the Caesars as to the meat whereon they may feed. Promoters are becoming active in the ever-fruitful Middle West. In spurious securities as in women's hats, fashions come and go. The great oil stock mania has apparently burned itself out, but in its place has arrived a credulity concerning fake land companies, ingenious but unsalable patent devices with "millions in it," and other corporate novelties...
FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK? Spurious counts, innocent maidens, forging financiers, tell-tale French maids all take the audience into their confidence in whispered asides and descriptive musical renditions in this revival of Anna Cora Mowatt's comedy...
...honor of having inspired Longfellow's familiar verses is not the first to have come to light, but according to the owners of the "Cock Horse", a tavern which now occupies the home of the blacksmith, and to several old inhabitants of the district such claims are entirely spurious. "There is no truth in the story," said Miss Withey, who has lived next door to the blacksmith's house for over 70 years; when the reporter asked her if the true smithy were in England and not in Cambridge. "I remember playing under the tree as a child. When...
Secretary Hughes submitted the Hanihara correspondence to Senator Colt, Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee. Its publication occasioned Senatorial thumpings, and oratorical flurries, including an effort from Senator Shortridge of California, who branded Hanihara's protest as a "spurious, verbose communication, unfounded on fact," Ex-Senator Phelan of California issued a statement demanding that the United States rescind the Gentlemen's Agreement and regulate its own immigration laws rather than delegate this authority to another country. He was supported by the American Legion, the National Grange, the American Federation of Labor, and the Native Sons of the Golden...
...Surcharged with platitudinous symbolism and spurious poetry...