Word: fakes
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...scare of "fake" was thrown into the art world a few days ago when the Boston newspapers revealed that the Boston Museum of Fine Arts had been fleeced of nearly $100,000 for spurious paintings among which was a highly prized canvas supposed to have been by El Greco. As responsibility for acceptance to the Fogg Museum rests with a large jury rather than with a single man, the possibilities of such accident are reduced to a minimum...
...Army line seemed inadequate when Harvard got its off-tackle plays and line plunges working in the two middle periods, energized by a backfield giant named Jack Crickard. But in the first period Eddie Herb, son of a non-commissioned officer in the regular Army, spun through on a fake reverse that was the only score of the game. Army 6, Harvard...
...frame" (up)=to fake; to prearrange surreptitiously. Senator Nye's insinuation apparently was that Nominee McCormick herself had her wires tapped, her office rifled, then blamed the Committee...
...kill Prince Umberto at all. Fernando de Rosa is obviously, admittedly an antiFascist, might have logically shot a Fascist prince, but many an Italian has heard that no one loathes Benito Mussolini more wholeheartedly than slender aristocratic Crown Prince Umberto. Thus the shooting might conceivably have been a fake, staged by friends of H. R. H. to increase his popularity in Italy before his wedding. Fat Fernando did his best to deny all such rumors on the witness stand last week...
...experience for his years, he had no difficulty finding jobs as a cowpuncher. Like all his breed he was a journeyman worker; from Canada to Mexico he wandered the West. After he had begun to be known as a writer, a cowboy critic once accused him of writing a fake cowboy language, but Author James explains his variations of speech by his many changes of scenery. Only his outfit and his style of riding, says he, never changed...