Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly charged with spurious excitement. Best shot: Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond allowed to see each other for a moment in the jail, so that a news-photographer can snap their hysterical embrace...
...blinking world in the eighteenth century by William Henry Ireland. This assortment is extremely complete, and includes bogus manuscripts, letters, and signatures. Now is the time for some scholar to bring endless discomfiture to the banks of the Charles, by proving that the collection is genuine, and, therefore, spurious. -The Cornell...
...Derby at Churchill Downs; of Vice President Curtis (a onetime jockey) marching down the clubhouse steps; and the sounds of a radio announcer mingling the names of real Derby horses (Spanish Play, Sweep All) with fictitious ones (Tommy Boy, Bar Sinister), help make the atmosphere of Sporting Blood less spurious than is customary. So does the performance of Clark Gable, who impersonates the young gambler with that air of reckless, good-humored depravity which has made him an overnight favorite among female cinemaddicts...
...bore the surprising name, for a Bourbon consort, of Francis of Assisi) was a young woman of 22, already two years a widow. In 1868, the year of her marriage, her mother Queen Isabella was driven from the throne by an army mutiny. Liberals then proudly announced that the "spurious race of Bourbon" had disappeared forever...
...course, impossible to give any detailed criticism of all the essays the little volume contains. Perhaps the most delightful of all is Philip Guedalla's conception of the world if the Moors had won in Spain. He gives Baedeker descriptions, Reuter dispatches, and chapters from spurious histories on the rise of the Moorish civilization. Hilaire Belloc is pretty sure that steamships and locomotives would be still figments of diseased imaginations if Louis XVI had escaped at Varenne's. Emil Ludwig gives a very interesting description of Germany if the Emperor Frederick had not died of cancer in 1888. Unfortunately...