He kept a lot of phony stuff in the safe, thinking if burglars found it they might be fooled and not look any further.
I looks at him, and then, thinking of the phony money, I looks at Durks.
There are no 'ifs or ands' about it like most phony stories where the fellow's trying to hedge in case someone comes back at him.
They knew that the signature was the nub of the whole thing and if there was anything phony about the paper they'd have got next at once.
Well, I reckon I called the turn, all right, when I said it was the same crowd that was turning out the phony stuff, eh?
Put up on a block as you would a Jap urn or a phony diamond?
This is the man who passed that phony hundred-dollar bill on me.
But that is exactly what is the trouble with that man who gave me the phony bill.
If anyone knows the phony finance game at all, it's J.
The minute I heard your name I placed you for the smooth party that tried to unload a lot of that phony Radio stock on Mrs. Benny Sherwood.
Jones wants more for the phony dough than he got last time, and the Skipper wants to give him less.
They probably have a set of phony papers under each name—and maybe under three or four more names that sound a lot like those.
Well, I read once that those loops and swirls are the hardest part of a bill to counterfeit, and if you’re on the lookout for phony money you should always look there first.
There had been nothing at all phony in the solemn toast he had proposed, nor in the righteous indignation he had felt against anyone who was giving Her Majesty even a minute's worth of discomfort.
But had it ever occurred to you that many of the methods used by phony mind-reading acts, for instance, might be used as communication methods by spies?
If I don't act a little skeptical, he'll think I'm either a blockhead or a phony or both.
With the backing of Magnum Telenews, you can blow Mister Glory-hound Porter's phony setup wide open and take the credit you deserve.
He wasn't the kind of man who would put on a phony act like that, even if his boss fired him on the spot.
Could be we've got a bogey closing on one of ours, maybe using a phony IFF.
Whoever they are, they're operating under somephony front name.
Then he dug into his grip again and produced the other 'phony deck, his three companions warning him against letting his angry passions rise, and so on.
I'm not any more phony than my neighbors, but it's a case of real dig with me just now.
They were the real kind--not fake tappers who rope fellows into giving up coin just by showing 'em phony instruments in shady rooms, but professionals, who really knew how to tap the wires and pull down the money.
Jim,' says he to me one morning when business was a little dull, 'I believe there's something phony about the blame snake.
I may go back to El Mouski and hand one to the phony Ali Moustafa, just to see what happens.
The camel let out a louder groan, one filled with such phony pain and despair that the boys burst out laughing.
Mentally I blessed Garrick for his forethought in having the phony 'phone in the garage against possible discovery of the detective instrument.
In spite of our fatigue, we were up again early and after another try at the phony 'phone which told us that only the men were working in the garage, we were on our way up to Garrick's apartment.
Brent Taber watched the match go out and then said, "You're the Goddamnedest phony I've met this week.
You couldn’t travel under a phony name in the Army.
You act as if you’d been caught travelin’ under a phony name and Max had found you out.
Ken dragged her from the lunch with a phony excuse, and minutes later we were checked out, solving at least one logistics problem.
I wanted to crack the goddam fraud over my knee like in the movies, but you don't do that with a samurai sword, even a phonymodern one.
I'm not going to feel safe till we've got the actual goods on his phony sword.
The newest twist on this is to use phony bonds with a so-called flip-over provision, a killer pill invented by a clever New York law operation I won't name but whose initials might be WLR&K.
A reliable source once told me Jerry'd averaged a million a year for the past five, even while taking a hit year before last for over two million when a certain famous "inside trader" sandbagged him with a phony merger rumor.
Now, I don't claim any seventh-son powers; but I only has to take one look at Toodle to guess that he's some sort of a phony article.
So she chucks up as workin' housekeeper, splurges on the wig, and strikes a swell intelligence office with this phony reference.
Any murder hitting the headlines brought at least one psycho out of the woodwork, driven by some deep-seated sense of guilt into making a phony confession.
Before I get out of this phony hotel I'm going to get another little jolt.
For a time they ate their food in silence; then the burglar resumed: "You know what I told you last night about the phony fighter, Allen?
It doesn't take much to get these phony guys putting their ears up and listening for alarms.
Maybe Falangismo as a philosophy is phony as all hell, and maybe its creed of Hispanidad, with all its blah about Latin America returning to the Spanish Empire, is just as phony.
But tonight there was nothing phony about sitting in a canvas sling, falling through a wet cloud, eyes peeled for the white of Segador's parachute.
