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...TIME must be nautical-term-wise in reporting the vantage point from which "The Commander-in-Chief" views Navy sham action, why pick on "No. 2 barbette?" Why not have the President suspended from port-aft-quarter-boom-kingpost in a boatswain's-chair or some other unlikely position...
Concluded the unconscious epitaph: "It is a sorry and a miserable tale, a tale of weakness, hesitation, indecision, delay, procrastination and of acting months too late. Economic sanctions if applied in time are effective, but if applied too late are worse than useless. They are a sham. They are a mockery...
...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...