Word: spuriousness
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...honor of having inspired Longfellow's familiar verses is not the first to have come to light, but according to the owners of the "Cock Horse", a tavern which now occupies the home of the blacksmith, and to several old inhabitants of the district such claims are entirely spurious. "There is no truth in the story," said Miss Withey, who has lived next door to the blacksmith's house for over 70 years; when the reporter asked her if the true smithy were in England and not in Cambridge. "I remember playing under the tree as a child. When...
Secretary Hughes submitted the Hanihara correspondence to Senator Colt, Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee. Its publication occasioned Senatorial thumpings, and oratorical flurries, including an effort from Senator Shortridge of California, who branded Hanihara's protest as a "spurious, verbose communication, unfounded on fact," Ex-Senator Phelan of California issued a statement demanding that the United States rescind the Gentlemen's Agreement and regulate its own immigration laws rather than delegate this authority to another country. He was supported by the American Legion, the National Grange, the American Federation of Labor, and the Native Sons of the Golden...
...Surcharged with platitudinous symbolism and spurious poetry...
...incident at Philadelphia aroused much editorial comment in the press. Said the New York Tribune : " Fancy Henry Corbett Lodge! . . . The idea of spurious Cabots is as disturbing as the thought of counterfeit antiques in the Metropolitan Museum...
...works specified by M. Vigoroux as spurious include 1) A ceramic piece attributed to Lucca della Robbia, 15th Century Florentine sculptor, sold to an official of the Metropolitan for $3,000, and "not worth a sou." (The Metropolitan contains only one della Robbia?a terra cotta bas-relief entitled Prudence, bought in 1921 under the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer.) 2) A 15th Century statue of St. Paul, sold to Assistant Curator Breck, of the Metropolitan, for $3,000. 3) A bas-relief group, Les Lansquenets (a former type of German footsoldier; the figures were called "devils" by the people...