Word: spuriousness
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Briefly he considered, sensibly he decided that the Occident's spurious "Tahitian pareos" are far more indecent than the Tahitians' pareus. If socialites may wear the one on the beaches of Florida (see cut) the Polynesians may wear the other in the landscape it was made for. Brusquely last week Minister Rollin rescinded the regulation against pareus in Papeete...
Messrs. Holtz & Baker, in boots, dilapidated hats and hickory shirts, courting Judy Canova, a dry, hillbilly Beatrice Lillie, with a spurious mountain ballad...
...artists the most spectacular in the world. The War took the public's mind temporarily off art but at its end French artists were sitting on top of the world. U. S. painters, unable to sell at home or abroad, tried copying the French, turned out a profusion of spurious Matisses and Picassos, cheerfully joined the crazy parade of Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism. Painting became so deliberately unintelligible that it was no longer news when a picture was hung upside down...
...expert on the Protocols was not made clear by the court. Expert for the prosecution was C. A. Loosli, a Berne author who declared the Protocols "scandalous literature of the worst sort," cited 170 passages paralleling those in the Joly Dialogue and unqualifiedly labeled the whole thing spurious. The defense had no experts. A Herr Rev. Munchmeyer of Oldenberg, Germany had not even replied to the Nazi invitation to represent their side. The defense state of mind seemed to be that of Dr. Alfred Zander in whose journal Eisernen Besen (Iron Broom) the Protocols had been published. He testified simply...
Second in interest are the quarto volumes of the plays, especially the first quarto of Midsummer Night's Dream (1600), the Whole Contention (spurious), and the so-called quarto of King Lear (1608). These are opened to display the carnation emblem and the typography upon which Professor Pollard of the University of London bases his thesis that the Lear and the Whole Contention together with six other plays similarly marked and printed, and variously dated 1600, 1608, and 1619, were in reality all printed and bound together by Jaggard...