Word: blah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan for a visit landed Idaho-born Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, loudest and funniest U. S. expatriate. Still arrogant, shrill, red-bearded, he readily announced: "I came over only because I'm curious. ... I regard the literature of social significance as of no significance. It is pseudo-pink blah. . . . The best practical economic stuff is being written in Italy today. Men write there for audiences of 500 or 600, say what they want and make sense...
...convention of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs in Buffalo, Anna Steese Richardson, editor (Woman's Home Companion) and playwright (Big Hearted Herbert) sputtered: "It's the same old stuff we have had for 30 years. The same contralto singer. The same old blah, blah, blah all over again. It makes me wild....We are headed inevitably for Fascism and yet the club women go on with the same old stuff and the average woman in the American home .cares no more about the way in which her city, state, and Federal governments...
...choosing, which your Brain Trust would bungle in a day. Stretch every American's brain far enough to grasp that the monarchy is a different thing from the man who is King, and that British royalist sentiment has little to do with the blah-haw-haw which selected Englishmen, usually pabliticians, spill through the cigar smoke at Hands-Across-the-Sea dinners...
...Rubber Company rolls into Atlantic City prepared for a siege. The mayor has just finished sending off another convention; he is weary, but he remembers the Maine and the bankrupt state of his city, so he bolsters himself. "Blah blah blah blah blah." "We know," shout back the rubberties," the key of the city is ours." And they rush off to a hotel...
...obscuring all this with the use of patriotic obfuscation, empty terms about cooperation of all for the good of all, the Conservatives probably can swing the nation with them in the next election. Concretely, and stripped of the blah, they offer security as opposed to equality. Furthermore they offer certain economics resulting from nationalization, abolition of competitive marketing, profitable business, which means active business. These advantages are obvious; the hidden results of lowered productivity, inefficient bureaucratization of industry with no ideological myth as an incentive, exploitation of the proletariat and of the rentier by rising prices are obscured. Given this...