Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hortense Norris, New York's first woman judge (TIME, Feb. 28), continued. In clipped, pseudo-British accents she tried to defend herself from the nips of Harland B. Tibbetts, one of the Seabury legal terriers. In one instance a Methodist Deaconess had brought a 20-year-old Greenwich Village girl art student into court, accused her of living with a man. By Judge Norris' order and without recourse, the artist was lodged in a home for wayward girls within two hours of her arrest. Throughout the recital of her alleged irregularities Magistrate Norris preserved a frigid calm, gave...
...week she was summoned before Referee Samuel Seabury, ordered up into the witness stand, like any common crook, put under oath, examined and cross-examined, twisted and tangled on her magisterial conduct. Dressed in green, holding herself stiffly erect, the onetime Brooklyn girl answered questions briefly, almost insolently, in pseudo-Oxonian accent. Her inquisitors attempted to show that she was a falsifier of her court's official record, a tyrant on the bench who petulantly bossed defendants around at the peril of their constitutional rights, a dispenser of justice toward women offenders far less merciful than male magistrates...
...steel spring and dynamite bone fish of Andros will not appreciate your publicity if it brings down upon them a blight of fish slaughtering pseudo-sportsmen...
...Andros bonefish need not fear the onslaught of pseudo-sportsmen. They and all who have made their acquaintance can testify that they are to be apprehended only by ablest anglers...
...promoted" (retired) from the post of Commander-in-Chief to something created on the spot called "Adviser to the Government in Matters Concerning the Direction of the War." Finally this sop was replaced by the baton of Marshal. To "Papa" Joffre the supreme military honor came as a sad pseudo-climax, a kind pretense that his power had not been taken away. There was nothing left to do, no further service he could perform for France, except to ride through the streets of U. S. cities in 1917, cheered to the echo, inspiring men to volunteer and fight for Democracy...