Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Renaissance artists: Donatello, Verrocchio, Mino da Fiesole, Niccola Pisano, etc., etc. Newspapers, promptly dubbed him "world's greatest forger," and before the excitement was over the notorious Elia Volpi and several other over-shrewd dealers found themselves fined, exposed, and once more in possession of carloads of spurious sculpture. Sculptor Dossena remained within the law. He never sold his work direct to museum or collector, never, so far as investigators could discover, pretended that they were anything but his own work. Nor did he make money. Dealers paid him about $200 each for works they sold...
...will destroy the arable land for miles around, Kate Smith (Kate Smith) accepts an offer to croon professionally to get money to fight the power company in court. The latter part of the picture shows Kate Smith broadcasting in Manhattan, contains close-ups of her porcine countenance illuminated by spurious geniality as she intones her trademark ("Hello Everybody") and her lugubrious theme song ("When the moon comes over the mountain, Ooom. . . ."). Sample farm song...
...William Cullen Bryant (1871), William Morris (1887), George Herbert Palmer (1891). Samuel Butler (1900), S. H. Butcher & Andrew Lang (1898), A. T. Murray (1919). Scholastically, Shaw's translation ("made from the Oxford text, uncritically") may not please Homeric scholiasts. "I have not pored over contested readings, variants, or spurious lines. . . . Wherever choice offered between a poor and a rich word richness had it, to raise the color." Literarily, Shaw's faint praise of "the first novel of Europe," his strictures on its author, may damn him in the eyes of the orthodox. Shaw's inverted English modesty, which will...
...Possibly spurious, the leaflets were offered by a Japanese spokesman as ''moral evidence" against Chinese. If taken at face value, the leaflets offered a further bounty of $4.500 gold for the head of any one of Henry Pu Yi's ministers and a general bounty of $225 gold per set of ten Japanese heads. The head of Puppet Henry Pu Yi himself was apparently considered worthless, no bounty for it being offered...
Other Billings credits: raising the standards of U. S. medical education; preventing the sale of harmful and spurious medicines; establishment of the Sprague Institute (studies of tuberculosis, heredity in cancer and degenerative diseases); persuading John Davison Rockefeller to let the University of Chicago have a thoroughgoing medical centre. Towards this Dr. Billings and relatives gave $1,000,000.* Dr. Billings' share was $100,000. Had Dr. Billings lived until his 79th birthday next April, he then would have received an "Homage Book," tribute of his onetime pupils. That project now is abandoned. At the time of his death...