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...Lithuanian doctor-farmer, Mykolas Devenis, was shipped to an Arctic labor camp after spending a year in prisons. "I was assigned to work as a physician," he said, "[but it] was just sham practicing, because there were no drugs and no facilities ... A physician's duties were just to find out whether a man was able to work." On a diet consisting largely of millet-seed soup and bread adulterated with sawdust, many prisoners died of scurvy and pellagra. Sturdy men in their 20s would sicken within a few months, lose their teeth and break out in unhealing sores...
...penned An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, a short but exact parody* written, like Pamela, in the form of letters. In it, he turned a drily realistic eye on Pamela's character and behavior. In Fielding's view, Richardson's Pamela was a sham, not so much the valiant defender of her virtue as its coy auctioneer, shrewdly holding out for the highest bid. Fielding's Shamela is an honest doxie who blats about her "Vartue" from time to time, but belongs essentially to the long line of fiction's profiteering amorists...
...cows, 15 calves, five sheep, ten geese, 13 ducks, and employs two helpers." In East Berlin they pilloried Pastor Hermann Erhardt of the Pankow borough. "Has the pastor collected parcels because he is needy?" the signs asked. "He said he did it out of Christian charity. What a sham...
...Second World War. You wait while your enemy is sharpening his dagger to kill you. You will call me a warmonger, but I am not. We have learned the lessons of war as you never have and we want peace desperately. But we want a real peace, not a sham peace. We are not stupid. We know we are fighting not only for ourselves but also for America. You speak of the necessity of unity. What's the good of unity if it is to be used for surrender...
...trying to have it all ways at once." His next words were almost lost in the din of angry voices. But Churchill went right on taunting and scoffing the Opposition for having shown so much "quiescence" over denationalization: "They have lashed up their fury, their pretended fury-all false, sham -all rubbish." Around him was uproar. Thrusting his face towards the Opposition benches, Churchill shouted: "Hon. Members opposite cannot do anything but yell. Let them have a really good yell if they want...