Word: sham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...department the leading candidate is Sham Kelly Jr. '36 a veteran of last year and captain of the Freshman team two years...
...host and guest at this point that Turkish and Persian journalists reported ecstatically afterward: "They have become real friends, personal friends and brothers!" At Smyrna, to his grave delight, the King of Kings received personal command of some Turkish troops who pitched under his orders into an exciting sham battle with airplanes raining "boom bombs...
...opposite things at once is Poland's gruff temperamental, walrus-whiskered Marshal Josef Pilsudski. On the same day last week the Polish Government made historic peace overtures to Adolf Hitler-whom most Poles hate and fear-and staged with real tear-gas bombs a sensational sham air raid on Warsaw, a capital to whose citizens "air raid" means a German air raid...
...stay indoors "in case of gas attack." The attack came, though it was only tear gas and only a few unwary citizens were caught in the streets, promptly to be rescued by Red Cross volunteers wearing gas masks. Warsaw, a city of 1,200,000, was paralyzed by the sham raid for seven hours. That night the Government shut off all electric current to remind Warsawites that their central power station was supposed to have been destroyed...
...duty officer in command refused to make a statement of any kind for three whole days. Finally the Admiralty, which never makes explanations when they can be avoided, explained that the tussle on Cromarty beach did indeed take place last week, but "as part of the Fall maneuvers," a sham fight between "pirate" sailors and the Hood's marines...