Word: sham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remedied. Civilized men will continue to find in mass entertainment, whether in the form of movies, magazines, or radio, a continual source of irritation and of misanthropic feelings. Nevertheless, there is a resource open to this small and outnumbered hand, the resource of laughing heartily at all the despicable sham, and of assuming the keen, critical temper that can cut through the blandishments of publicity agents...
...scenario called for a breath-taking display of air power-sham battles in the air, mass flying formations with the wings of the planes 16 ft. apart. The dreary weather permitted only a stately parade of the squadrons down the hazy Hudson. Except for a few power dives and dog fights over Floyd Bennett Field, the only aerobatics of the afternoon took place inland over New Jersey. A patrol of pursuit planes dove at the World-Telegram-Eastern Air Transport's "flying press box," shooed it further off the course...
...this latter change is a noteworthy one. The Advocate has branched out into the field of provocative essay writing with a gusto that is encouraging and convincing. Casting a strict literary tradition aside she publishes in her current Spring number a thoughtful article that scrapes the sham off of the English Department and one that at the same time puts both modern architecture and the Harkness Hoot in their places. In fact, the Advocate has, in its conservative manner, gone "Hoot". Its editorial gives every indication that it intends to continue this newly established policy. The writing of essays...
...Washington, to the American Society of Newspaper Editors sharp-tongued little Frank Richardson Kent, political gadfly for the Baltimore Sun, buzzed angrily: "There is more bluff, sham, false pretense, faking, cheap posturing, posing and futility here[in Washington] than any place else. The bulk of the birds who fly about in the Washington aviary are not nearly as beautiful or as good as they pretend-or as the newspapers picture. . . . What they want is to be taken by the newspapermen as seriously as they take themselves. What they don't want is to have a newspaperman go behind...
...tilt Will Rogers, on a cow-pony, cuts figures around the knight on his lumbering charger and finally yanks him off with a rope and drags him round the field as western ranchers used to drag a horse-thief when they caught one. Will Rogers' deliberate awkwardness, his sham ble, mock shyness and ability on horse back, are all ideal for the role, and it does not matter that his drawl is Oklahoma in stead of Connecticut. His personality and his multifarious activities have made him by this time, even to Americans, a figure symbolic of American ism. Next...