Word: spuriousness
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Three days later, Wheeler made a full-dress reply in the Senate. He declared that the President had "joined the wolves of war in their slanderous attack," that Stimson " with deliberate cunning . . . created the utterly false and spurious impression that I had circulated this franked card principally among selectees...
...These spurious itinerants, helped by airborne troops from Rhodes, took over from the French the Syrian airfields. They also enlarged the landing stage at Latakia. Syria's northernmost port...
...Rutherford gave the patient a careful examination. She was not pregnant. She had no tumor. He wanted to find out what caused the huge swelling, but "she received the diagnosis of spurious pregnancy with contempt," and marched off to consult another physician...
...Most of the women with spurious pregnancy are in their early 30s, are childless, and eager for offspring. They may go from doctor to doctor hoping for encouragement, even prepare baby clothes. Some of them have later gone through a normal pregnancy; in some cases they started in the midst of a spurious pregnancy...
When he began to croon, Lewis Reid of the Morris agency asked Character Actor Irving Kaufman to assume the role. Plump, pink-faced, freckled, balding, Kaufman, who as a small boy once played a spurious Russian midget in vaudeville, has portrayed Lazy Dan for Old English Floor Wax, Happy Jim Parsons for Air Conditioning Training Corp., Johnny Prentiss for Gruen Watch Co. He boasts that he has made more phonograph records than any other singer, having worked for 22 companies under ten different names. On the radio he has played as many as twelve characters in one sketch. But until...