Word: sham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator McMaster is a farmer's friend. He sits among the Republicans in the Senate but he warned the Republicans before Christmas that he would ask them to talk tariff reduction. He carried out his threat last week, demanding tariff benefits for farmer, denouncing as "sophistry." "sham," "fraud" all arguments to the effect that farmers are adequately benefited by current tariff schedules...
...little, round hills, of funny irregular cities upon whose wide quiet squares a few bewildered people postured, of dark mysterious forests in which Indians trotted and yodeled and performed their gloomy dances. A citizen of London, he smiled; he watched Bunker Hill as if it had been a sham battle fought in an English park and, when Boston was blockaded, wrote a playlet that amused the inhabitants...
...fearless and uncompromising without being intolerant. ("[It] will attack sham and dishonesty where they appear; but it will try to remember that people are generally what circumstances make them and that it is more useful to attack conditions than...
...morning Soldiers Field assumed a martial aspect superlatively compatible with its name, and the concrete walls of the Stadium witnessed a scene rivalling any gridiron contest in action and intensity, an exhibition which a spectator might have guessed to be either a celebration in honor of Lindbergh or a sham battle...
...Coolidge ... did well to get rid of him." Said the New York World: "The deceased lived a short life but a merry one." Said Senator Norris of Nebraska, nominal Republican: "The Bolsheviks got him." Three months ago Senator Reed of Missouri had said: "Let us have done with this sham...