Word: sham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasure to notice with what diabolical perspicacity the writers of book blurbs select the author's most striking language for the public to sample. Here is the work of a critic who can select from the mass of sham which gluts the maw of the reading public the few tiny gems of true art. Listen...
...Dictator meanwhile witnessed a go-minute sham battle staged in one of Rome's great squares by 30,000 Fascist boys of sub-military age. Trained since early childhood to handle Army rifles, they blazed away with blanks last week, also fired full size artillery pieces from which sheets of flame leaped six feet into the air until the mimic battle reeked of smoke. "Make of your souls well-sharpened daggers!" The Dictator told his boys...
After the Baltimore battle, Mr. Landis chilled perceptibly, demanded in his first radio speech as SEC's chairman a court test that is "real and not a sham...
...Such a sham as the government is planning to carry out deceives no one. Senator Nye and his associates had a nobler purpose in their fight for neutrality than to enable the United States to pay lip service to peace while reaping profits from commerce with the belligerents. As it becomes increasingly clear that Europe is moving toward war the truth must be recognized that the embargo cannot go too far. Even if the moral standpoint can be disregarded, the practical one cannot. The embargo on armaments is a good beginning, nothing more. To make neutrality a fact as well...
...Vittorio Emanuele III. His $250,000 Fascist-built private train, far more modern and luxurious than that possessed by any of the world's emperors, waited with steam up and all blinds down to speed the Little King northward for maneuvers. Next day His Majesty was at Trento, sham war base of the "Blue" army, and Benito Mussolini arrived later at Bolzano, base...