Word: balderdash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gould, identified Jack as a Scotland Yard inspector. In the recent The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, Mystery. Writer Michael Dibdin put forth the heretical notion that the Ripper and the detective were aspects of the same character. Now Clark offers his own 7% solution: part authentic atmosphere and 93% balderdash...
...Balderdash...
Still, the book is so amiable and loose-jointed, perhaps like the U.S. itself, that the reader is happy to wade through balderdash to the next bit of good storytelling or good sense. Meanwhile, what about this name change? Why Morgan? Why not Carnegie or Rockefeller? Why not Svensen or Von Humboldt or Verrazanno or Sun Yatsen? Well, Morgan explains, he threw away his first name, Sanche-a contraction of St. Charles -and scrambled the letters of De Gramont. Among the anagrams that resulted were Dr. Montage, R.D. Megaton and Ted Morgan. Morgan, he felt, was someone you would lend...
...your life, young man? When Shapiro tried to answer he couldn't, because he knew something awful was going to happen. It was better that he didn't, because he intended to look DuPont in the eye and say, "Write a novel sir," to which DuPont would have snorted "Balderdash!" or something equally puerile. But Shapiro was fascinated by what was moving up from his gastro-intestinal tract; slowly yes, but inexorably moving, and he felt the way pharoah's charioteers must have felt when they saw the Red Sea falling in on them, and nowhere...
...Senate last week unanimously adopted a resolution condemning "the recent beatings, imprisonment, and harassment of Soviet Jews and other minorities trying to obtain emigration visas." Tass responded that the gesture was "pure balderdash" and claimed that "98.4%" of those who have sought to leave Russia in the past five years have been allowed to go. Substantiating the Senate's concern, however, two Jewish "refuseniks" (would-be emigrants not allowed to leave the country) who attempted to contact U.S. embassy officials in Moscow were manhandled and hustled away by security agents...