Word: fakes
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...months ago, at least, that Carlos the Crook tried to inveigle the lion-hearted Andy Gump into buying fake oil stock. And about a month later the same scoundrel, Carlos, treacherously stole the modest bank roll of the fair Widow Zander...
...sent by Secretary Mellon to Senator Smpot setting up a Bureau of Prohibition separate from the Internal Revenue Bureau. Other Administrative measures were understood to be in the process of formulations have been convicted of offenses including murder, violation of the Mann white slave act, annoying women, a fake holdup, negligent homicide in connection with the death of a young woman riding with an agent in an automobile, extortion of $40 from a Jewish rabbi, criminal assault and assaulting wife. The total number of prohibition enforcement officers convicted after trial...
...comedy while Houdini is upstairs changing his strait-jacket for the next escape. But the magician is the main spring of entertainment, and powerfully so. He gets out of the most hideous torture machines and performs the most incredible miracles. He includes a revelation of the practices of fake mediums (all mediums are fake according to Houdini). The show will be on the road all the rest of the season. Of its type it is unexcelled...
...spectacle of too many gilded "amateurs" has spoiled the possibility of any such request being granted. People suspect a fake in the picture of the amateur athlete, burning with desire to do his duty by the public, yet faced by the necessities of bread and butter. Presumably, the amateur turns his back on Mammon and unselfishly offers his talents and his time on the altar of public service. Growing boys are crying out for an athletic example, old men's eyes will flash with ancient fire at the spectacle of his skill and might, young girls will realize that none...
...ingenious fellow in my office prepared a fake 'diary' of a German soldier, who was supposed to have had to assist in boiling down some of his comrades. And it was planned that a certain correspondent who had a passion for German diaries should be allowed to 'discover' it. ... But I felt that the deception had gone far enough. . . . An error in the diary might have led to an exposure of the falsity, which would have imperiled the effectiveness of all British propaganda. ... It was never used and is now in the London War Museum...