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...this blah-blah about those nine WAC officers (TIME, Sept 11). Phooey...
Maury Maverick, the Texas tornado, further denounced and denned Washington's "gobbledygook" language (TIME. April 10). Said "blah"-maddened Maverick in the New York Times Magazine: "First, the word: it is long, sounds foreign, has four stories. You walk up without benefit of elevator. Second, its definition: talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved. ... It is also talk or writing . . . with repetition over & over again, all of which could have been said in a few words...
...Stephens, the double-talking ex-basketball great, did himself proud at both the smoker and afterwards in Harvard Square where he occupied himself asking gendarmes where he could find the quanta obit-blah-blah-blah--and if it wasn't close by? The bobbies were befuddled no end. Anything...
...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...