Word: spuriousness
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...much to be an ideal vehicle for the cinema in general or for Ruth Chatterton in particular. Her performance, like that of Paul Lukas, as the doctor, and the late Robert Ames, as the husband, has a studied competence which leaves Tomorrow and Tomorrow the cold outline of a spurious dilemma instead of a tragedy in heroic compromise...
...author is likely to sound like Zane Grey. Be it noted that Playwright Dan Totheroh (Wild Birds} falls into no such error. And his heroine, Fay Pauline Lord, making her first Broadway appearance since Strange Interlude, helps make this piece a subtle diversion in mood rather than one of spurious heroics...
...there is another side of undergraduate Yale which has not been touched upon until now because it can contribute only the finer shadings to a blatantly general portrait. There are those at Yale who have become firmly convinced, not of the value of its social training, not of the spurious importance of costly buildings, but of the purely intellectual and educational opportunities it affords. If such men can live through the first two years of banal "prep"-school routine and generally low grade instruction without experiencing a revulsion of vicious disgust toward the university and the pretentiousness of its very...
...Governor Ely's efforts to reduce graft and spurious practices in the game are sincere he has made an excellent move. The coming of Mr. Casey into the boxing world may well be a warning to its racketeers. It is doubtful, however, if even a person with his conscientious integrity can single-handed do much to improve a game which has consistently resisted a house cleaning. Able legislators and competent public-spirited citizens have tried before and failed and if it is possible that Mr. Casey does not understand the character of the field which he is entering he should...
...highly charged with spurious excitement. Best shot: Sylvia Sidney and Gene Raymond allowed to see each other for a moment in the jail, so that a news-photographer can snap their hysterical embrace...