Word: blahness
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...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...
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...