Word: balderdash
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...preamble to an accusation that the Pearl Harbor correspondents write tripe and lies and kill Pacific stories before the truth can get out. Correspondents in Pearl Harbor, writing from a ten-line communique and feeling a terrible compulsion to produce prose, pump their stories full of pure fancy and balderdash. Because they must write something and know no better, they begin each battle in triumph and write it off to a victorious finish by the second...
...Took The High Road. In the confusion of hints, claims, expertizing and balderdash that flooded news columns last week appeared these grains of narrative fact...
Franklin Roosevelt himself dished up something that looked like balderdash. At a White House press conference he conveyed the contradictory ideas that military spending must be on a pay-as-you-go basis and that this does not mean that the U. S. must Pay in the same year that it Spends. On top of this, he declared that pay-as-you-go Rearmament does not necessarily entail new taxes. Since the U. S. is still running whopping deficits, the implication was that Rearmament must replace some other form of spending, but the President went on to say that military...
Author Zugsmith's characters talk their share of balderdash. They pause in two dullish chapters to discuss martyrdom of left-wing professors and preachers. Nevertheless, their talk has the ring of an uncracked Liberty bell, rich with authentic undertones, strident with neurotic overtones. If Leane Zugsmith s novels have not been monuments, they have been milestones along the U. S. road. This novel, her sixth, indicates that she is still headed in the proper direction, uphill, going places...
...Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres, whose frequent sound-offs in news letters from Cleveland Trust Co. are the favorite economic reading of most U. S. tycoons, this was all so much balderdash. Remarking on the railroad crisis, stagnation of new building, lack of substantial upturn in automobile production, fall in security prices, increase in unemployment and lack of a spring upturn. Colonel Ayres decided that the present lull is only the end of the first stage of a major depression. Gloomed he: "The physical volume of industrial production appears to have dropped to more than 40% below the computed normal level...