Word: spuriousness
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Since the halycon days of the Twenties undergraduate interest in football has steadily decreased; while this may be attributed to indifference, the main reason is probably that the games are too expensive; and, since restricted incomes prevent the undergraduates from attending, they affect a spurious disdain for the sport. At present prices the cost of a football ticket is certainly prohibitive to many students. Hoping to remedy the situation, the Harvard Athletic Association announced this fall that tickets would be sold at two or more prices, lowering the rates on less desirable seats. This was done with the expectation...
...reached the stage of "Apostolic Process" in which a church tribunal could be held to investigate miracles and "heroic virtues." The Holy See ordered that it take place in Chicago with George Cardinal Mundelein as judge. "Devil's advocates" were appointed to cross-examine witnesses and eliminate spurious miracles. One of them, Monsignor Giovanni Delia Cioppa, came all the way from Rome. Churchmen could recall no such tribunal having taken place before in the U.S. In strictest secrecy, by candlelight behind locked doors in an austere chamber in Columbus Hospital, one witness at a time appeared before the court...
...this is quite as spurious as it sounds but, hobbling atmospherically along with that artfully erratic pace which Director William Dieterle uses to give his adventure stories glamour, it makes acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Victor Jory -an able, sharp-faced young actor who has become a featured player after his first five pictures-gloomily apologizing to Loretta Young for kissing...
...mark, the nation's kidnappers had for the most part confined themselves to snatching each other. Ransom was paid, the victim released and nobody, including the police, was much the wiser. Jake the Barber was one of the few underworldlings left with appreciable means. He has peddled spurious stocks on two continents-in dry oil wells, flooded Florida land, non-existent glass casket companies-since he professionally laid down his razor in Chicago twelve years ago. At one time he bought an exhausted African platinum mine, dressed Negroes up in muddy work clothes, took photographs of them, prepared literature...
...shows her flirting to get a job in a bank, rolling an eye at the department manager, arousing the lower nature of the cashier, finally having an affair with the vice president. The cashier shoots the vice president and himself, leaving Lily Powers to marry the president. Most spurious shot: Lily's change of heart in the last reel- when she has deserted her president-husband and started for Paris with most of the funds which he needs to save himself from jail...