Word: sham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society Doctor" idealizes the American Medical Man in reasonable proportions. Chester Morris, Virginia Bruce, and Robert Taylor are all good. All the sham and hypocrisy of society doctoring is roundly denounced by Young Surgeon Morris who keeps up with his profession to the extent of knowing all about the brand new Steiglitz Abdominal Technique. The plot is cleverer than the average, and is sufficient to hold up an overemphasized character. The scenes all take place within the hospital, and are of a much wider range than one would imagine. There are shysters, big shot gangsters, unfortunate policemen, handsome doctors, ugly...
...beauteous wife is Maureen, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Londonderry, social backers and promoters of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. To a Laborite the mere fact that aristocratic Major Stanley, a successful ex-stockbroker, was made Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham. To Conservatives nothing seems more right and proper. They assume that Oliver Stanley is briskly, but not too briskly, on his way to becoming Prime Minister.* Last week he stumbled, and swank Mayfair was pained. In Sheffield fierce riots broke out, all because the new Minister of Labor was not quite...
Growled Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell: "People will sit for hours listening to radio talk that is nothing but sham, pure and simple sham. . . . Do not put too much faith in those who are humbugging the world...
...sham and melodrama should be disregarded by the Court in the examination of the facts that caused the spectacular rise in Insull common stock to $55 a share. That Insull carried on expansion of his companies at the beginning of the depression in proportion to that of many other large industries--automobile, oil, transportation, etc.--can not be denied. But Mr. Insull's expansion was of an entirely different type. Whereas the Rockefeller, Ford, and Sloan interests were expanding by a normal increase in the demand for their products, Insull Utilities rose in value chiefly by an elaborate system...
Albert Hamilton, student at the University of California, contended that, as a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his conscience would not permit him to take part in drills and sham battles staged by the student corps...