Word: spuriousness
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...presence of a tom. Yet I feel that Dr. Freud, watching her physical caresses of her offspring, would suspect her of incestuous longings. The Oedipus complex, where it occurs, is always caused by a wrong attitude, in the mother-an attitude mainly, of seeking from children a spurious imitation of satisfactions only fully derivable from sexual relations between adults...
...Zimbalist, famed violinist, was sued by George Smith, Los Angeles fiddle dealer, who said that Violinist Zimbalist had paid him but $2,000 of an $8,000 debt - the price of two instruments. Counsel for Violinist Zimbalist contended that one of the violins, listed as a 1717 Stradivarius, was spurious, that the maestro had been cozened...
...great. But counterfeiters have their triumphs, however brief. Last week the Treasury at Washington and officials of the German and Swiss police came to a rueful conclusion. They think that a counterfeiting gang as yet uncaught has successfully placed in Central Europe at least $100,000 worth of spurious U. S. banknotes. They fear that the success and scope of the fraud may prove to be many times greater, perhaps ten times...
...affair has apparently become more than one between a professional photographer and a petty burglar. It is between Yale men and several undergraduates of Princeton, Yale, or Harvard. It has become fairly clear, since the receipt by the Yale News of obviously spurious telegrams from various sections of country that the disappearance of this last vestige of an old Yale tradition was an undergraduate prank. That the Eli authorities regard it as such is shown by the fact that detectives are already at work on the campi of the universities under suspicion...
...world. Rocky coast, sandy beach, blue-grey hills are all within easy striking distance. Consequently the effects of week-ending at Harvard are not usually so dire as those reported from the institutions which are situated in the country, and whose undergraduates therefore feel an attraction to the slightly spurious delights of the metropolis...