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...Mickey the Dude," as he is known, earned himself some notoriety last fall by personally trying to break up a fake Nazi parade which was an initiation stunt by the Lampoon, College humorous magazine. For his pains he was rewarded by a much-publicized kick in the pants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Hot Campaign For Mayor Likely | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

...Counting as tubes for advertising purposes "dummy or fake" tubes, "ballast" tubes, dial or other illuminating lamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fair Trade | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Barrick was clapped into prison, where he threw two "whizbangs" (fake convulsions), demanded ten grains of morphine. (Average pain-killing dose: between 1/6 and ¼ grain.) Strangely enough, after several dopeless days, he did not become violent or sick, as most addicts do, but calmed down, gained weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pulverized Poison | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...Says the New Masses: Krivitsky-Ginsberg never was in Russia, never was a Soviet official, is a fake. To these guns it sticks. TIME sticks to no guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Broadway's supreme critic of bad plays, with a great gift for wise cracking down on them. ("[Jeremiah] may be entered ... as prophet and loss"; "Twenty years is a long time, except be tween wars.") Anderson was No. 1 Hellza-poppin-hater. Though murderous with fanciness and fake, he is sometimes too clever and cynical at the expense of a serious play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Makers & Breakers | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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