Word: spuriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brooklyn, Manhattan and Binghamton, N. Y. last week the Government quietly collared ten people who, it charged, had set out to plaster the country with $2,000,000 worth of spurious $5 bills. According to the Government, as side lines the counterfeit ring had issued a number of fake baseball lottery tickets, had bilked Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes) out of $50,000 by circulating through its Binghamton plant thousands of forged piecework claim tickets. While squads of CCC boys were set to work digging up several acres of land near Riverhead, L. I., where the ring was supposed to have...
...merits of the bill are of course, self evident, but the really decisive argument for its passage is offered by a casual scrutiny of the opposition lobby. It is no surprise to find the compounders of ineffective panaceas, love charms, unmentionables, and spurious venereal disease cures on this role d'honneur--for the passage of the bill would render them criminals. The participation of the backers of such widely used and palpably respectable products as Castoria, Midol, Cascarets, Crazy Crystals, and Ovaltine is the significant fact. This is patently a confession of deceptive advertising which can and must eventually...
...Worldly," "Captivating"). Last week Greek Catholic Archpriest Nicholas Kedroff, Dean of St. Nicholas Russian Cathedral in Manhattan, led his congregations in a prayer that Anna Sten's first U. S. production would be successful. His piety and Producer Goldwyn's extravagance were misplaced. Nana is sad but spurious and stodgy. All that saves it from complete mediocrity is Anna Sten who, although her accent is still outlandish, is a cheery, wise and personable importation from Russia. Unlike most European cinemactresses, she is interesting without seeming morbid...
...feel that I should take this opportunity to protest against the disposal of spurious propaganda in the dormitories. I am one of the few individuals on the campus who is actively concerned with bolstering up the at all times shaky structure of good will between foreign and American students. I firmly believe that any future attempts to excite nationalistic and racial prejudices on the part of unauthorized and obviously uninformed persons should be definitely discouraged. . . We must guard against allowing the flotsam of political prejudice casting upon us the stigma that we allow ourselves to be msekly impressed by odoriferous...
...plot makes more sense than history: Mary and Bothwell fall in love at once. Mary marries Darnley for mistaken policy, sends Bothwell away. Darnley wrecks himself and Mary by playing in with the Lords, knifes Mary's secretary Rizzio on suspicion of adultery, thus unwittingly giving a spurious confirmation to the lie Elizabeth has spread about her kinswoman. The Lords then murder Darnley, shift the blame to Bothwell when he marries Mary. They defeat Mary and Bothwell in battle. Mary escapes from their jail into Elizabeth's jail and her tragedy waits only on the headsman...