Word: fakes
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Dinner was excellent and for nearly three hours we ate, drank and talked. I told them I had been much amused at the fact that they took me for a fake American, just as I thought they were fake Poles. They laughed, and asked about Germany. Was it true that the Russians also, like the British and Americans, were using Germans as railroad guards and policemen in their respective zones? Why did they behave so foolishly? I asked them about the elections. It was reported that they were arresting many oppositionists. Was this true? The Major shook his head: "Every...
...Besson had one foot over the window sill of his Paris flat when police broke in and collared him. The raiders also found stacks of counterfeit food and clothing coupons; a rackful of fake government rubber stamps; a veritable alchemy plant and enough pieces of gold to light the eyes of Captain Kidd...
...cartoons by "Sav" have continued in an even grander way, however, along with frequent post game extras. A couple of steals were perpetrated on Yale in its own territory of New Haven in both 1906 and 1940, "scooping" the Yale News both times. The latter was quite frankly a fake, since the reader, after being attracted by the blazing headline "HARLOWMEN THUMP BLUES," was referred for the score to a non-existent page three...
...from pen points which had signed contracts for the building and the central highway, had been donated by the contractors and the workers. Before that, the bauble is said to have belonged successively to an Austrian nobleman, an Eng lish collector, a Paris jeweler. Skeptics claimed it was a fake. Either way, it had been a satisfactory zero milestone to measure off Cuba's central highway...
...Annie would send housewives raiding grocers' shelves by reporting that the Allies had dropped fake ration stamps. Once the station described a celebration honoring German railroad workers-most of them slave laborers. Said Annie: "At the end of the celebration, speeches were translated into Polish, Hungarian and Slovak-for the benefit of the assembled . . . workers...