Word: spuriousness
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...range from the simple buckle-and-eyelet on the classic leather belt to the most elaborate of emblems. Nailheads on the strict elastic cinch are the most straight-forward decorative shape. Heraldic emblems are still popular, and vary in size from an inch diameter to giant encrustations of spurious coats-of-arms. A gleaming creation that is not strictly a cinch at all but a development of the Mexican concha-style is the belt made entirely of nationalistic or heraldic emblems joined with links. Some belts have buckles or clasps of an ingenious and occasionally coy sort, such as lock...
...Richard H. Rovere, onetime Nation editor, much of the special issue of his old magazine was an example of "a spurious brand of anti-McCarthyism." Writing in the New Leader, Rovere said that the Nation's "doughface anti-McCarthyism . . . can be as dangerous as McCarthyism itself because its image of America is as false and, I am inclined to believe, as intellectually and morally disreputable as that of the Yahoos and primitives who have made McCarthy a power in the land...
People who see little of him think of him as a garrulous, facetious and easygoing nightbird whose one aim in life is to figure in the list of spurious personalities who make up café society. Those who have seen him from inside the circus know him as a stubborn man of uncommon determination, whose whole life is devoted to proving himself as big a man and a better showman than his uncle, John Ringling...
...flavor and authenticity they pack in 229 portraits and illustrations. Some of the stories they tell have been told before, but seldom if ever have so many good ones been strung together, with honest-looking pictures. The result is a book that takes the old West away from the spurious westerns and gives it back to the real cowmen and bad men. Reality, in the cattle-driving days of 1850-1900, was fully as lively as most of the subsequent fiction...
Harridans in Cholers. Priestley sets out to tell how an average British town plays its part in the Festival of Britain, quite against its better civic judgment. The festival is foisted on Farbridge by a certain "Commodore" Horace Tribe, a spurious old dear with "a piratical nose and tiny bright eyes as busy and wicked as mice...