Word: fakes
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...built in the U. S. since 1900. Upstairs, modernists ran hog-wild. Their slick, streamlined exhibit had models of their buildings and shrewd camera shots, featured a credo that made traditionalists sputter. Sample sputter-causer: "The heritage of our generation is the accumulated rubbish of a century of fake fronts...
Pollak, in a letter to the Mirror, declares that he was particularly anxious to correct that part of the fake story which said "he had to be fished out of the pool," since he learned to swim at Nantucket,"... and I hate to think of losing this skill, even in a cooked-up news item...
There they lived in pathetic fake grandeur on a bourgeois $40,000 a year-eating more fish than meat, traveling in state in a motorbus, scrimping so as to surround themselves with a bevy of hair-combers and coat-holders-always playing at monarchy with Otto. They addressed him "Your Imperial Highness." In the nursery his seven little brothers and sisters bowed and curtsied...
...What Germans, to British horror, think of Jews, Britons think of the entire working class. Symptom: fake "eugenists" who glorify the bourgeoisie, pretend to prove the biological inferiority of workers...
...which is to be expected in a Fields picture--and the supporting cast of Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Donald Meek, and Anne Nagel are left to shifts for themselves. But there is no lack of action. Mae West, as the siren Flower Belle of Last Gasp Saloon, stages a fake marriage with Guthbert J. Twillie, in order to become a "decent lady," and then floors fidelity. Fields spends his time quaffing alcoholic beverages, gambling with stacked cards, and coining such phrases as "I perceive there mist be an Ethiopian in the fuel supply...