Word: spuriousness
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...which are in accord with Holy Writ speak for themselves. Those which are not, have to be classed with evolution, the roundness of the earth and other matters which were not factors in the speculative thought of the ancient Jews. . . . In sex conduct we are today going through the spurious freedom phase; in the first childish exhilaration of revolt we are grossly misbehaving. But I think we shall some day achieve something in sex very far removed from all this-something governed by authentic tastes, and free but educated preferences-a genuine culture, in short. The Denver City Club...
...borderland. T. R. B. in the New Republic, Walter Lippmann in the New York World, an occasional editorial in the Nation, these form a gallant and a pitiful band. And even these are not always unencumbered with such impedimenta as missions, ideals, or factional propaganda, all of which are spurious to the true satirist...
...question is: are the men who flogged Lawyer Brown and these other Toombs County dwellers real or spurious Klansmen? Grand Dragon Forrest, of course, says they are not. He adds another $500 reward to Governor Walker's $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of the leader of the floggers. Governor Walker, too, is a "proud and noble" Klansman. Hence, the reward offers of these two gentlemen may either be taken as gestures of righteous indignation or as a means of diverting suspicion from guilty fellow-Klansmen. Judge R. E. Hardeman of the Toombs circuit did not hush...
...Paul Pioneer Press which published a full-page self-advertisement to the effect that it was entirely responsible for the visit of Santy Claus to St. Paul this year? What did they think of 10,000 salesmen of everything from hairnets to pig iron who circularized their "prospects" with spurious store-bought rhymes about "sincere friendship" and "peace on earth...
Over the week end, however, something "unforeseen" occurred, for in Monday's papers the John Lane officials begged the public's pardon: they were sorry but, entirely innocent themselves, they had fathered the hoax. The book was quite spurious, and was written by one who was ignorant of those about whom he gossiped and lacked the background necessary to such in time chatter. Would everyone who had bought the book please return it to the publishers and get their refund? If the purchasers would be so obliging all would again be serene, feelings would be soothed, and the whole matter...