Word: spuriousness
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...Spurious Plays...
...high marks for good intentions and pomposity, refused to consider it as a masterpiece, but conceded that its weighty persistence was more impressive than the average novel's. In a prose that at times had echoes of the late George Moore's, at others wore the same spurious air of well-bred indifference as Joseph Hergesheimer's. Author Morgan's story beautified the Byronic hero as lover, as artist...
...triumphs, such as beating up Bowery toughs, are scarcely worth mentioning. "A remarkable child," you'll say. The fact is that Jane Withers really has a forward, winning way about her, even if her sauey brogue in this picture, on the authority of our Irish friends, is a bit spurious...
...minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk gauze by means of an electrical shimmy appliance. Guests beheld, in glass cases, the raw materials of cosmetics, labeled in spurious Latin. They browsed in the Max Factor Research Library in which there are not only bound volumes of the American Journal of Dermatology and Syphilology but also old copies of National Geographic and Pearson's Magazine...
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...