Word: shams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only one year ago, sad Amanullah had ten thousand times $30, dozens of suits of clothes. Touring Europe he rode with Kings, witnessed sham battles, inspected shops in each country he visited, blithely accepted magnificent gifts bestowed in the hope that he would make even more magnificent purchases...
...mouth a little bit, wrote a letter to Secretary of State Stimson about the "extremely important" Curtis-Gann question. He mockingly urged Statesman Stimson to "hurry up." He explained he was interested only as an "ordinary" citizen who contributes taxes toward "the upkeep of this great mysterious social sham which towers in importance over questions of national and international import." After thoroughly flaying everyone else concerned, he urged that a seat at table be found for Mr. Gann and that, if no other solution could be reached, the whole affair be submitted to the World Court...
Borah−"The biggest sham of them all is the principle-peddler from Idaho, the Great God Borah...
...anti-treaty gun still to be shot off. Meanwhile Bruce of Maryland, Johnson of California, Robinson of Indiana, Bingham of Connecticut, many another smaller gun popped, snapped, sputtered. The Senator from Idaho began somewhat to resemble an Horatius at the bridge, a Leonidas at Thermopylae. It was a sham battle, inasmuch as there existed an almost universal opinion that the treaty would easily collect its necessary two-thirds vote. Nevertheless, Senator Borah's partners remained silent partners; Senator Borah was sharply badgered, the treaty severely peppered...
...Republican Foreign Policy he said: "You cannot preach one doctrine in Europe and practice another in Latin America." He flayed the G. O. P. for failure to reorganize the Government as promised, both in 1920 and in 1924. He ridiculed Mr. Hughes for saying that "prohibition" is a sham battle, while Senator Borah pronounces it the paramount issue of the campaign...