Word: sham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mockery and a sham...
...quite sure that the speed is wrong. Slow it down until you feel you are listening to an amiable old gentleman of 71 with a rather pleasant Irish voice, then that is me. All other people whom you hear at other speeds are impostors, sham Shaws, phantoms who never existed...
...During the staging of one more sham battle in his honor, Amir Amanullah watched with round, startled eyes while a 38-ton tank lumberingly butted and crushed down the brick walls of a model fort. Turning away his head, as though in revulsion, His Majesty declared "How unromantic and terrifying is Western warfare...
...orders from Afghanistan, but last week "The Light of the World" did not so much as take a trial sweep in his expensive toy. What seemed to interest His Majesty most was a military review, during which Reichswehr troops first goose-stepped in mass formation and then staged a sham battle enlivened by dummy tanks, wooden howitzers and other substitutes for weapons which the Treaty of Versailles forbids to Germany...
...spread rapidly, fanned by bitter winds. A general alarm was sounded. Out of the theatres stumbled blinking creatures whose sham emotions were slowly growing real. Clerks put on their shoes and hurried through the streets to office buildings, to rescue documents and typewriters. Traffic became a honking confusion of motorists from surrounding towns, attracted by a hellish red in the sky, visible for 20 miles. A group of enterprising young men started removing papers from the City Hall. Police stopped them. Salvation Army workers served coffee and sandwiches to the firemen. The Elks held open house. All through the night...