Word: baloneys
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...remembered him as a symbol of a wonderful era-the years of the never-ending bull market, of the hip flask, of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Dempsey fights. Al Smith's hoarse and genial East Side voice, his chewed cigar, his violent pajamas and his rasping expletive, "Baloney!" belonged to the fabulous '20s as much as It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'. He was against the Volstead Act; and in the '20s the U.S. almost elected him its President...
...have grown old in these twelve long years, by being constantly harassed by Miss Democracy's termagant adopted daughter, Miss New Deal. Yes, I have grown fat too, for each day of these twelve long years, I have been fed an overabundance of baloney...
...opinions and attitudes insinuated into your news stories are often so sensible and so contrary to the baloney the rest of the press serves us, that I wonder at your little swipes at Congress. Why do you pick on them so? They are only poor, dumb people like us, trying to get along, and working under difficult conditions...
Harvard College will become coeducational, announced the Boston Globe last week. The United Press put the rumor on the wires, soon had to follow it with Harvard's denial. "Globe Baloney," said the undergraduate Harvard Crimson.* Its editors supported what was really under way - some administrative consolidation of Harvard and Radcliffe...
...didn't pay their war debts, Uncle Sam became Uncle Shylock, the country heard that the holy crusade had been waged to make good J. P. Morgan's loans, that Our Buddies were the pawns of the munitions-makers, that the Road to War was paved with baloney; the blood had been shed not by heroes, but by suckers...