Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rule, dialect stories, ladened down with spurious local color, and almost comically heavy tragedy, are the inevitable result of attempts to tell of Life in the North Carolina Mts., the Norwegian fjords, the Normandy fishing villages, or the Scottish Highlands, but "Gallows' Orchard" has none of these faults. It suggests power and strength without making its principal character spit tobacco juice on his or her hands. Its catastrophe really is tragic, and even though the whole story is one of tragedy, it is not lacking in beauty...
...presence of a tom. Yet I feel that Dr. Freud, watching her physical caresses of her offspring, would suspect her of incestuous longings. The Oedipus complex, where it occurs, is always caused by a wrong attitude, in the mother-an attitude mainly, of seeking from children a spurious imitation of satisfactions only fully derivable from sexual relations between adults...
...Zimbalist, famed violinist, was sued by George Smith, Los Angeles fiddle dealer, who said that Violinist Zimbalist had paid him but $2,000 of an $8,000 debt - the price of two instruments. Counsel for Violinist Zimbalist contended that one of the violins, listed as a 1717 Stradivarius, was spurious, that the maestro had been cozened...
...great. But counterfeiters have their triumphs, however brief. Last week the Treasury at Washington and officials of the German and Swiss police came to a rueful conclusion. They think that a counterfeiting gang as yet uncaught has successfully placed in Central Europe at least $100,000 worth of spurious U. S. banknotes. They fear that the success and scope of the fraud may prove to be many times greater, perhaps ten times...