Word: bosh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such military critics as astute Major George Fielding Eliot (The Ramparts We Watch) wanted to know whom and where the U. S. expects to fight with an expanded Army. Just as big a question after the President's press conference last week was whether he was talking politic bosh with "pay-as-you-go," or whether he was about to haul down his trial balloon, restore Messrs. Craig and Leahy to command, and reduce Rearmament from big talk to a small practical matter for Army, Navy and budget...
...year-old daughter of Radio Theatre Critic Bide Dudley, flounced into the bathroom, shot herself in the breast with a .22 rifle. A suicide note was found. Day after the shooting, which caused only a minor wound, the two renewed announcement of their engagement, said the suicide story was bosh, that the shooting was an accident. In South Bend, Ind. Footballer William Shakespeare, who played three years in Notre Dame's backfield without injury, went picnicking, stepped in a woodchuck hole, lamed himself so thoroughly he had to take to crutches...
...important neutrality for a big navy. Her diplomatic service was "a stronghold of anarchy.'' The Kaiser's vacillating hysteria played hob with any sensible, straightforward policy. Author Wolff quotes some of the revealing marginalia the Kaiser was fond of jotting on state papers ("Bosh!" "What does this civilian know about it!" "Poltroon!" "Idiocy!"), gives several instances when his angry orders, if carried out, would have meant instant war. Of such diplomats as Russia's Isvolsky, Austria's Berchtold, England's Grey, he writes with temperate disapproval...
...policy. Except for the complete absence of the so-called "skiing", type of article, the rest of the issue lives up to the self-advice of its editorial. There seems a sincere interest in "printing what the literary undergraduate has to say"; if there was any surrealistic or communistic bosh, it must have been concealed in the two or three poems and stories which we did not understand; without mentioning the inevitable and necessary (for purposes of contrast) dullnesses, the articles were stimulating without being, as the editorial feared, offensive...
...Bosh" it was. The Black Hole was photographed in less than five hours at a cost of about $2,500. Items: 146 extras @ $7.50 per day, $1,095; three cameramen, crew of 60 gripmen. electricians, property men-total wages $1,500. The replica of the Black Hole was a boxlike structure built on an ordinary sound stage. In succumbing to what Producer Darryl Zanuck calls "pressagent bookkeeping," TIME was joined by many a columnist...