Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualified sense, Harvard men. This entails several responsibilities. No longer will you take the subway or tube over the Charles River to Park Street. As a Harvard man--in a qualified sense--you take the "cah over the Chahles to Pahk." As a pro tem and pseudo Crimson student you may move only in strict channels so far as relations with women are concerned. Those channels are Radcliffe, Pine Manor, and Wellesley. You may date a Radcliffe girl, but the chances are pretty good that she'll outrank you; also her disbursing grades will be higher than yours...
...nation's mind ever since he retreated to his swamp home 13 months ago, the owl-eyed, trap-mouthed head of tobacco-juicy Gene Talmadge briefly raised itself to the light last week. The pseudo-folksy ex-Governor of Georgia made the papers by rising before the Lions Club of little Eastman, Ga. (pop. 3,311) and plugging the election of General Douglas MacArthur to the Presidency-as a Democrat. Then the No. 1 Has-Been of Georgia politics subsided again with a faint snapping of galluses, having once more done nobody a great deal of good...
There is a lot of ardent acting in Passage to Marseille, a fair amount of excitement, and a large, generous intention to show France, and Frenchmen, at their worst and best. But this important intention, even when it becomes articulate, struggles like a fly in molasses against the pseudo-solemn theatricality with which the film is conceived and executed...
Hugo Gernsback is widely and affectionately known among U.S. inventors as a bottomless well of incredible notions. For more than 30 years fantasies have come in such profusion from his brain that there is hardly a modern invention he cannot claim to have anticipated. The father of pseudo-scientific fiction, he has started a number of pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, etc. As a radio magazine publisher, he has given laboratory workers some suggestive ideas. Gernsback himself has patented some 80 inventions, none of which, his admirers are proud to say, has ever proved of the slightest...
...Black Jack." The A.E.F. grew up. Pershing was methodical. He made a fetish of writing things down in his clear, clipped style-with no metaphors, pseudo or otherwise. He made the A.E.F. drill. He insisted that infantrymen be taught to shoot, though the French clucked. The French depended on hand grenades. He was more than ever the spit-&-polish disciplinarian. To his officers "Black Jack" (the nickname he picked up when he was with the Negro loth) was God. To the enlisted men he was both God and devil. Some remembered him striding across a muddy field of France with...