Word: spuriousness
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...Oxford, where it was stated Shakspere always stopped when in that city. Du eto this, and the great dramatist's known or rumored admiration to the hostess, there sprang a scandalous story, attributing Davenant's paternity to Shakspere, a legend which Davenand himself encouraged, but which later criticism considers spurious...
Thus an issue was created by the Liberals in which it was made to seem that Canada's cherished "Dominion status" was being threatened by "the Crown and the Tories." This essentially spurious argument was rhetorically strengthened by recalling that it was Mr. Meighen who drafted the Military Service Act of 1917 under which Canadians were conscripted and sent willy-nilly to fight for His Majesty George...
Mechanically-minded son of an Indiana miller, he none the less, to gain livelihood, had learned the printing craft. As a printer he worked among the Dakota Black Hills, at Minneapolis, at Chicago. There he founded the periodical Dairy Produce, fought against spurious oleomargarine. (In 1902 Congress passed the bill he demanded, the oleomargarine be not colored artificially.) He wrote a textbook, The Dairyman's Manual...
Arkansas. A Los Angeles judge had the pleasure of sentencing James S. ("Fiddlin' Jim") Davidson, U. S. postmaster of Fallsville, Ark., for traveling about the country passing $80,000 worth of spurious money orders. Arkansans, however, paid little heed to the event. "Fiddlin' Jim's" peculations are almost beneath notice in the state that repeatedly re-elects legless Commissioner of State Lands, Highways and Improvements Herbert R. Wilson, a master of high and hidden finance...
...kept in motion with fluids, is beneficial in Asiatic cholera, bacillary dysentery, chronic ulcerative colitis and acute enteritis. In some cases the clay carries away intestinal bacteria, in others mixes with their toxic products. The Journal warns inexact thinkers that many other supposedly beneficial effects of clay-eating are spurious...