Word: phoney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the telephone, Mr. Fisher related his tribulations: "I am [collecting] and I'm blamed if I know why people should get so excited about it. . . . Ever since . . . that story about the phoney Romney - if it is phoney - I have had to have 15 or 20 guards around my house. When people hear about you paying a lot of money for a picture they get the idea that your house is lined with gold and they do everything but climb into your bedroom windows. Honest, I wish this thing would die down. I'm sick of hearing about...
...William A. Brady from his sponsorship. On the first night, the press agent, having left his job, leaped upon the stage with Sharon's converts, voicing a mock repentance. The crude vigor of the performance and the oily excesses of the actors made Elmer Gantry an exciting, though phoney, melodrama...
...Midshipman. A phoney picture of modern U. S. life has been made at Annapolis with Ramon Novarro in the lead. In the days of its manufacture they thought that President Coolidge would hand the cinema actor his diploma. There was unrest among the politicians, and the doubtful honor fell to Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. The hero starts acting honestly but finally succumbs to the lure of his own uniform and overplays...