Word: baloneyed
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...Brown Derby campaign items of the week were the following: Arthur Smith Jr., 30-month-old grandchild, lifted up his small, lisping voice and sang "The Sidewalks of New York" for a "talkie" film at Albany. With Jefferson, the Great Dane, nearby, he was not afraid. Nor was it "baloney" to him. He sang earnestly, correctly, to the end. George J. Anderson, president of the Consolidated Coal Co. (Rockefeller, "largest U. S. producers of soft coal,") declared for Smith and said: "The present administration has not disguised its hostility to West Virginia's basic interest." He mentioned that West...
...other extreme. Their use is chiefly destructive, to ridicule and depreciate the other side's men and issues. The national campaign of 1928 has been notably a campaign of cartoons for two reasons: The issues are sharp and bitter; and both sides have ruled out what Nominee Smith called "baloney" pictures ?posed photographs of the Nominees digging on farms, milking cows, kissing babies...
...Hoover-Baby incident, Nominee Smith had been asked by press photographers at Albany to pose in the act of laying bricks. Nominee Smith refused and said: "I can't lay bricks, and any bricklayer that saw it would know I couldn't. That's a baloney* picture and I'm not going to stand for any baloney pictures in this campaign...
...weeks priorto both the Hoover-Baby and Smith-Baloney incidents, Nominee Curtis (Republican) was approached in Providence, R. I., where he was resting and yachting, and asked to pose for press cameras in the act of dirt-farming. Nominee Curtis' reply was: "You've got to take me as I am. I'm not farming" (TIME, July...
Hasty editors might, from the above record, assign to Nominee Curtis the credit for eliminating "baloney pictures" from the 1928 campaign. But no editor would do so who is a journalist before he is a partisan. Because, as a matter of fact- It seems indisputable that the underlying cause for this year's anti-baloney epidemic among politicians lies not in the politicians' honest hearts, but in the alert U. S. press, whose newsgatherers, observers, commentators and editors have spent many years trying to divest U. S. politics and politicos of the more obvious political shams and absurdities...