Word: blah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ballyhoo's page of "editorials" is composed entirely of the repeated word "Blah," written thus line after line: "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." Throughout the book only one joke appears, over and over again: "Who was that lady I seen you with last night?" "That was no lady. That was my wife...
...Henry Louis Mencken was speaking, nor Oswald Garrison Villard, but their local counterpart in San Francisco?Editor Edward Morphy of San Francisco's old conservative weekly Argonaut. Said he: "The Argonaut is opposed to blah and sobsister stuff. Blah seems to be the present standard of American newspapers." Also is the Argonaut opposed to Prohibition, reformers, the Klan, Radicals. It is for Capital Punishment; has small patience with labor unions; delights in baiting the bustle and flamboyance of Los Angeles...
...Blah, Blah, Blah!" Already Berliners with radio sets can hear with perfect distinctness Communist propaganda broadcast in German from Moscow three times a week. The opening words of the Red announcer are: "Police and soldiers of Germany, remember you are proletarians in uniform! Remember that in Germany, too, the right way is the revolutionary way! Long live the German Soviet Republic...
...constant fear of a Soviet attack to recover Bessarabia (which Rumania seized from Russia after the War), has installed an anti-Red broadcasting station. Whenever watchful officials of this station hear Moscow broadcasting in Rumanian they turn loose their own station on the same wave length and go BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...
...time of war, when it might become necessary to blah-blah all enemy stations (with the enemy of course blah-blahing too), the balloon loudspeaker may prove to be of strategic value. With all radio broadcasting blocked, the President of Germany could still speak to all Berlin at once, and, by hooking up more balloon-speakers, to all Germany...