Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scarcely any time to give to painting. When he was able to work in oils he went at it slowly using tentative outlines and building up his forms with wash after wash of semi-transparent color to get the right modeling of light and shade. Infra-red photographs of spurious Daumier paintings showed clearly how this sensitive process had been misunderstood and faked by inferior artists...
...Bischoff sent to Production Head Briskin Extra Players Pat Daly, Frank Jaquet, Bill Teelaak who posed as U. S. Congressmen Martin of Mass., King of Utah, Tydings of Maryland; sent with them a Warner Brothers cameraman who posed as a newspaper photographer. Production Head Briskin posed with the three spurious Congressmen (see cut), blushed, bumbled: "Gentlemen, welcome to RKO! We'll do everything we can to make your stay pleasant." He had them shown about the studio, introduced to Stars Katharine Hepburn, Helen Broderick, Gary Cooper. Gloated Producer Bischoff: "This evens...
...organizer. He solemnly declared that he had been "authorized" to announce that the Department of Justice had in its possession $750,000 in canceled checks paid to John L. Lewis by communist sources. Repudiated by A. F. of L. headquarters, shrugged at by Department of Justice officials, this spurious tale was probably accepted as gospel by all good haters...
...gravest betrayal of a most sacred trust!" cried Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, President of the Zionist Organization of America. "We Jews found Palestine an almost abandoned waste. Under the mandate of Britain we transformed that waste into a high civilization! [The Report] attempts to set up another spurious Arab kingdom, strikes at the very heart of Jewish hopes and is an affront to the League of Nations...
...familiar with the "glided dogman" which passes as counterfeit coin for real aesthetic criticism. We can readily identify the same type of spurious currency stamped with social and political symbols rapidly passed about from hand to hand by the inhabitants of each conforming world. But if we are to reject this false metal we must be prepared each one of us to mint our own--we must be prepared to make our own judgments of the most intricate and complex situations. To do this with any degree of success requires, indeed, "a rich background and a disciplined insight...