Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, well informed that Footballer Key's spurious status was long an open secret on U. C. L. A.'s campus, is impressed not with maliciousness or gullibility but with the current vogue of undergraduate cynicism toward amateur purity (see below...
...Viscount Snowden, the National Government's present alarums & excursions in Geneva diplomacy are a belated effort to distract the British public from their miserable record. To advise His Majesty to dissolve the House of Commons and order a general election at this time, Viscount Snowden called a "spurious appeal to patriotism, a mean and partisan act." Stoutly he predicted that Britons will not be fooled, that the Conservative majority of the so-called National Government will lose 200 seats...
...last week found little romance in the memoirs of onetime Superintendent of Scotland Yard George W. Cornish. To professional sleuths crime detection is work like any other, hard, slow, tedious. Cornish of Scotland Yard is enlightening for its revelation of day-to-day police routine, its honest avoidance of spurious melodrama...
...Protocols of the Elders of Zion.' " Thus closing the libel suit brought by Swiss Jews against Swiss Nazis (TIME, Nov. 12; May 13), Judge Meyer let off three defendants entirely, let off two others with niggling fines, announced he was unable to ban circulation of the spurious Protocols throughout Switzerland...
...recruiting-poster technique which Warner Brothers perfected in Flirtation Walk has two main advantages. Enlisting the aid of the U. S. Government cuts production costs appreciably. A foreword expressing effusive thanks gives the picture a patina of spurious patriotism which helps sell it to the public. In Devil Dogs, first Cosmopolitan production released since the Hearst cinema producing organization was transferred from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to Warner, these advantages, combined with some of the most exciting stunt flying seen in the cinema since Hell's Angels, were correctly deemed sufficient to compensate for the lack of anything which might...