Word: bah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...detest them especially when they are long. They are unprogressive, impracticable, unhealthy. They are masks for solemn humbugs, weak chins, degenerate and receding jaws. They are nests for bacteria. . . . Bah! I hate beards...
...position to live a life of drinking, gaming and debauch. Suddenly he abandoned these practices, and when his friends assembled to remonstrate, he cried: "I have given up this kind of life to give my real services to my country. You call yourselves my friends. Friends! Bah! Thank the gods, I shall not have to call you friends any more. You, who are supposed to be working for the country and serving the people, are not MY friends. Get out! Don't come here again...
...Ebenezer Scrooge, chief character in Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol, is first introduced as a squeezing, grasping, covetous old hunks, sharp and hard as a flint, whose favorite remark on all subjects, but especially Christmas, is "Bah! Humbug...
...ever denied his son anything? Why, Jack's friends called him Francis because of his rich ways. And now to turn thief. If Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws. But to run off with them to give them to the Church-bah! A vision, did the bishop say? The bishop would make him give the goods back? Visions like that would land a boy in the lockup...
...TIME, May 10, p. 20, you published an article on the financial difficulties of young Cornelius Vanderbilt's newspapers, in which the following sentence occurs: "Ever since a bullet-headed, thick-jowled Vanderbilt stood with arms folded in front of his hearth and said: 'The public? Bah! The public be damned...