Word: fakes
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...nurse proves to be a fake but the museum prospers. Presently Barnum has a bigger one where General Tom Thumb does a minuet with his tiny wife. Bailey Walsh goes to purchase Jumbo from the London Zoo. When he returns with Jenny Lind (Virginia Bruce) instead, Barnum's troubles start. A Swedish masseur teaches him a toast. When he uses it at a banquet, Jenny Lind thinks he is trying to insult her. She scuttles back to Sweden, the neglected museum goes bankrupt, and Barnum is forlornly slouching on a park bench when his old friend General Thumb discovers...
...Cummings announced that he was going to prove that Mr. Mellon, while Secretary of the Treasury, had been guilty of tax crookery (TIME, March 19, et seq.). It was alleged that Mr. Mellon had cheated the Government out of $716,000 worth of income taxes in 1931 by fake stock transfers and bogus losses. Two months later the case was brought before a Federal Grand Jury in Pittsburgh. The jury refused to indict its rich fellow-citizen...
...whom she meets while taking a walk. The threat to these somewhat incredible proceedings is supplied by Miss Wong, Raft's Chinese sweetheart. If it is not much of a threat the fault is less hers than a role which gives her half a dozen lines and a fake Oriental dance as her total assignment for the first three reels, one closeup scene registering jealousy and another registering defiance in the last four. At the climax the dog-store owner has been put on the spot by Raft who, in a fit of remorse, goes through a hail...
Dazzled by double spinners, triple reverses, fake forwards and lateral-pass combinations, in which as many as six men handled the ball, Tulane was caught flat-footed against Andy Kerr's dexterous Colgate team...
...Russian figure waving a red flag over California. Another was an appeal by a non-existent "Citizens' Co-operative Relief Committee" for donations of clothing, food, room space and money for the 1,500,000 new citizens expected to arrive in the State because of the Sinclair Utopia. A fake "Young People's Communist League" leaflet bore the party hammer-&- sickle and an endorsement of Sinclair. In preparation, said Sinclair headquarters, were 1,000,000 pamphlets alleging that Upton Sinclair had once tried to take out Russian citizenship papers in Moscow...