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...lyrics, Hay tries to show up the "human sham" by making candid modern mention of it. But since her verses proclaim the sham "natural" they merely give publicity to what they set out to expose...
...Which is the natural human sham...
...Natural Sham. A typical compilation of 1939 magazine-verse is Sara Henderson Hay's This My Letter. Its author herself is typical of the many Americans who are harassed by an almost total lack of disadvantages. She has: a genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree...
Italy announced the biggest maneuvers of her history, to be climaxed with a sham "Battle of the Po" in the North. The Fascists made no bones about naming the invader: the French. Lest scheduled naval maneuvers in September heighten the chances for a crisis in that fateful month, Great Britain advanced her fall sea games to August when sailors presumably may play without trepidation...
...Ranh Bay off the coast of Indo-China, French warships were maneuvering one bright morning last week. The submarines Phénix and L'Espoir submerged to make a sham attack on the flagship of the Far Eastern Fleet, the cruiser Lamotte-Picquet. After a half-hour L'Espoir knifed to the surface, but no one saw the Phénix, and probably no one ever will. For a day and a half planes and warships crisscrossed the sea, searching in vain for the crippled vessel. And then the Ministry of the Navy belatedly informed the families...