Word: artificiales
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*Sidewalk slang for "bogus," "artificial," "untrue."
The great actresses of the last generation are difficult to appraise in this one, a time of more rapid reputations and artificial fame. Theirs was a period when the glamour of the stage seemed a more tangible thing. Because the roles they played were generally those of people far more...
But the widow Angeline was resourceful. While she put little store by such things herself, she knew that Parisian women loved to soften their skins with greasy pastes, loved to create an artificial bloom to replace the natural color which had faded. The widow Angeline bent over the kitchen stove...
M. Le Capitaine is the burly ogre in the fairy tale of European stock manipulation. Ogres gobble. Ogre Loewenstein boasted recently in Manhattan (TIME, May 7) that the two major holding corporations chairmaned by him* have gobbled lesser public utilities and artificial silk corporations to a total of $150,000...
Most people regard most paintings with total apathy if they regard them at all. Most painters decry this inattention; some will even admit that in this day their art has become a weak one, fostered by artificial and injurious enthusiasms. Precisely why should it be less fun to look at...