Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spurious Plays...
...Second Folio, published in 1632, contains the names of the foremost actors in the plays, Shakespeare heading the list. The Third, printed in 1664, claims to present seven hitherto unpublished works "according to true original copies." Six of these are spurious, however, and only one, "Pericles, Prince of Tyre, is Shakespeare's. The others, which include such plays as he "Yorkshire Tragedy" and the "Puritan Widow" are by authors unknown today...
...high marks for good intentions and pomposity, refused to consider it as a masterpiece, but conceded that its weighty persistence was more impressive than the average novel's. In a prose that at times had echoes of the late George Moore's, at others wore the same spurious air of well-bred indifference as Joseph Hergesheimer's. Author Morgan's story beautified the Byronic hero as lover, as artist...
...triumphs, such as beating up Bowery toughs, are scarcely worth mentioning. "A remarkable child," you'll say. The fact is that Jane Withers really has a forward, winning way about her, even if her sauey brogue in this picture, on the authority of our Irish friends, is a bit spurious...
...minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk gauze by means of an electrical shimmy appliance. Guests beheld, in glass cases, the raw materials of cosmetics, labeled in spurious Latin. They browsed in the Max Factor Research Library in which there are not only bound volumes of the American Journal of Dermatology and Syphilology but also old copies of National Geographic and Pearson's Magazine...