Word: impostor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zone skeptics called the provisional regime a "Soviet puppet," charged that Kim II Sung was an impostor trading on the name of a legendary Korean resistance leader...
...Smith Jr., the New England farm boy obsessed with the idea of digging for buried treasure, who claimed to have "translated" the Book of Mormon from golden plates (by putting a "seer's stone" in his hat, then pulling the hat over his face), was an out-&-out impostor...
Martyr's Crown. But as the early Mormons moved westward, across Ohio to Missouri and then to Illinois, harried from Zion to Zion, sometimes tarred and feathered, sometimes killed in skirmishes with gentiles, Impostor Joseph Smith came close to being a prophet. Smith (Biographer Brodie believes) gradually hypnotized himself as well as others. He saw himself now as a true Moses, and at the end, faced with the choice of flight or death by lynching, he wavered, then took death and a martyr's crown...
...Prince" Mike Romanoff, Prohibition's most famed impostor, now a successful Hollywood restaurateur, was a pseudo-princely visitor in a 39th-floor suite of Manhattan's swank Hotel Pierre. East on an optimistic liquor-buying trip, the Prince discussed a 33-acre hotel he plans to build in Beverly Hills. Speaking of his former attitude toward the press, he remarked: "The morgue is the god of the Fourth Estate; there, sufficient multiplication of error is its verification as fact. The freedom of the press is the same as poetic license; it allows them to say anything. ... I assure...
Phillips (whose real name is Arthur Osborne Phillips) finally got a diploma from the University of Tennessee medical college in 1930 by posing as the James Herman Phillips (no relation) who graduated from that school in 1916. Impostor Phillips had served as orderly to the real Dr. James H. Phillips in the Army Medical Corps in World War I. He picked up more medical lore and tricks of surgery in prison hospitals. He made one modest attempt to come up the hard way: a brief internship (1930) in a West Virginia hospital, from which he was dismissed for "unprofessional conduct...