Word: bosh
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...Yudenow. It is Sam who dominates the book, a grasping, greedy, devious monster whose hilariously disarranged speech makes the best lines attributed to Sam Goldwyn read like decorous bits from Fowler's Modern English Usage. He is a devoted movie fan, particularly of westerns: "Bing, bash, bosh-another foreskin bites the dusk!" Sam informs his new manager that he will have to use his nishertive as well as clever tictacs to hold his own among citizens who are given to throwing fulsuric acid and include not a few sexual regenerates. They will steal even the light bulbs...
...that may seem to you to be just bosh...
...replied that the candidate (whoever that might be) surely would favor shortening the backbreaking job of campaigning. That brought a whole bevy of reporters to their feet clamoring for the next question. Was he aware that this stand implied that he will be the candidate? Ike's answer: Bosh...
...reporters well knew, bosh is neither no nor yes. They probed on. Wasn't it true that Tom Dewey had urged him to run again? Well, he had read in the paper that Dewey did a lot of urging. But Dewey had described the joys of private life in terms that certainly seemed to commend...
...truth about people and characters." What's bad about it? "For one thing, the new producers. In the last few years young men have come on the scene who want to be producers. They know nothing so they put on trash. The cry is 'young blood.' Bosh, young blood has corrupted more fine things in this world. It needs to get just a bit stale." About as stale, perhaps, as George Jean Nathan, the Fabulous Invalid's fabulous...