Word: balderdash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Even journalistic criticism has vastly improved, despite the balderdash and hogwash poured out weekly in such papers as the "Saturday Review" by superannuated professors whose knowledge of literature stops with Hardy...
...regulated that the bootleggers are driven out of business; unfortunately, these charming bits of descriptive writing have of late been pushed off the front pages by articles on the latest boost in federal tax per gallon on all liquors. The thinking man has retired from all this balderdash and poppycock to splash about in an oversize bathtub of the good old home-mixed gin; and in so doing, he unconsciously indicates a way out for the nation...
...Footlight Parade" seems to suffer from a comparison with "Forty Second Street," or the golddigger balderdash. The plot is thin, the songs are only fair. Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, and James Cagney are adequate in their parts. But they show a superior attitude to all the implausible nonsense: It is not in good taste, nor is it just to the public if great artists are insincere. What deserve praise are the photography and the ensemble dances on such a large scale that, were he living, Ziegfeld would feel like a cheapskate if he saw them...
...establish a Fourth International shows how this tendency has manifested itself in Russia. The original Bolsheviks placed the furtherance of the world revolution above all else; this has now been superseded y a realistic foreign policy assiduous in advancing the interests of Russia. While a great deal of verbal balderdash about the international proletariat still goes on, it is soft-pedalled and nationalism is encouraged...
...restatement of the plot of Smilin' Through"conceived by Jane Cowl who acted in it in 1919-22-can make it seem other than a balderdash tearjerker. Basically this is a fair estimate of the picture. But Smilin' Through possesses also all the qualities which make cinema a persuasive art and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the most persuasive of cinemanufacturers. Director Sidney Franklin* treated his story with the manner appropriate for an afternoon in the attic peeking at grandmother's love letters. Leslie Howard and Fredric March act with finish and aplomb. Norma Shearer's part, immensely...