Word: sham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Likeness of Elizabeth deals with the forgery of a painting by Holbein. The sham is detected by one of the forger's best friends...
...idea was simple?to get the people accustomed to the initial steps which must be gone through in a national emergency. Parades, sham battles, demonstrations were an incidental means of dramatizing the idea...
...unable, in a world wholly full of rottenness and decay, to find her own feet; and Ulrika achieves her most brilliant success in marrying her off against her will to a clever and unscrupulous scoundrel who uses Josephine's millions to achieve a great position in a sham world...
...vast monument of sham and humbug...
...Churchill, former Secretary of State for this, that and the other Government department, in a speech at Liverpool, virtually severed his connection with the Liberal Party. Showing strong affection for Conservatism, he appealed for cooperation between the two Parties against Socialism, said the Government was "one vast monument of sham and humbug," called Philip Snowden a "political cuckoo...