Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...disguising airplane factories and flying fields as farms by distorting shadows, building dummy roads. Germany disguised many a new flying field by planting it in crops, laying dummy railroad tracks across the middle to fool high-flying enemy pilots. Another dodge of the 1940 camoufleur is to set up fake flying fields, factories, military posts for enemy bombers to shoot at. France, short on planes and morale, went to the foot of the class in this kind of camouflage. Long on bottle corks, Frenchmen floated millions of them on rivers and canals, figured the Germans would think the cork masses...
...sued by a dealer on the same grounds. Embroiled in a lawsuit in Hollywood, Calif, last week was a smart, grey, stocky art collector named Dr. U. (for Ulrich) L. (for he won't say what) Di Ghilini. Dr. Di Ghilini is a magician, an adept at exposing fake mediums, who baffles and intrigues the cinema...
...pictures he promised; 2) an injunction restraining Dr. Di Ghilini from selling the throne until the case is settled. Last week Osiel and Spencer petitioned the Hollywood court to strike from Dr. Di Ghilini's answer to their charges certain "irrelevancies," notably his reference to the fake trance. Said Mr. Spencer, now convinced the throne was indeed Isabella's, "Like Great Britain, we'll win the last battle." Unconcerned, Dr. Di Ghilini last week gave one of his amazing exhibitions at the Knickerbocker Hotel, showed how clairvoyants (by collecting and disseminating subversive information) could be useful fifth...
They got their fake catch past the jealous eyes of fellow fishermen, but the weighing-in officials were harder to fool. Somebody noticed the sea lice clinging to their fish. Sea lice usually outlive salmon by six hours. The lice on the prizewinning fish were dead as doornails...
Three weeks ago Germany tried to fake a fait accompli. Berlin newsmen reported that the Storting had met, declared King Haakon "no longer able to function" and appointed as "Regent Without Portfolio" Ingolf Elster Christensen. The Norwegian Government in London promptly replied that Haakon had not been deposed, that the Storting had not even met. Christensen, it explained, had held the same post since the collapse of Naziphile Quisling's self-appointed premiership in April. With the consent of King Haakon he was still heading the Norwegian Administrative Committee, which acts as a sort of loose civilian government under...