Word: boob
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...Mencken may now add to his list of people who huggermug, who boob, hick and wowse, those who go abroad sensing scents to censor. Certain persons walk about Broadway with their noses in the air, suiffing ozone that is impregnated with biology, straightaway expunge the biology, and go rejoicing on their righteous way. They discover for instance, that The Virgin Man has become The Captive of Sex, and proceed to straighten out the triumverate in a manner that leaves the principles chastened and shamed, and the producers in a state of elation at the success of their little drama...
Park--Tommy. 8.15 o'clock--Glucose. A boob grabber for the folks...
...smoking room oracles are feeling sorry for Henry Ford. They think he is up against it. Strange how the crowd likes to hear that the rich man has to wiggle. Well, they said that about John Willys. Now look at the Whippet go. They thought Chrysler was a boob because he had no wheelbase two years ago. Who cares now? Of course, the business is just beginning. Five years from now would be a good time to start. There will be twice as many buyers then." Quipster Jordan feels that the business situation will be good the next six months...
...Tilden stated that his present work on the stage in New York in "Don Q. Jr." called for the part of a boob, which he thought was in no manner connected with his athletic ability...
...will do a textbook of the art and science of politics under democracy--that is, of practical politics, of the polities of job getting and boob bumbing? Surely there is a long felt want there." This is Mr. Mencken's latest dictum. Once again the modern Machiavell speaks the credo he has long assumed. Not a treatise which will lift the ethics of the profession of politics into the realm of the ideal, which will make of the gentlemen at Washington the "Guardians" of the state, but a textbook of bunkum and blither, a composite of the formulae...