Word: bosh
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...said, "but you probably won't have any. You will tell your students to study certain pages, and when you meet them you'll ask questions to see whether they obeyed you. If they really have, you'll congratulate them and give them a good mark. Bosh!" But as it turned out, that was not the sort of teaching...
...planted there deliberately to infiltrate this country," Gossett declaimed. "They came here with the connivance and assistance...of the Red governments from whom they have allegedly fled. All of this business about these poor people not being able to go home because they would be liquidated is pure unadulterated bosh...
...Classes." During World War I, he trundled off to try his hand at battle scenes ("I suppose there is no fighting on Sundays," he remarked to a general at the front). He tried landscapes, character sketches ("a lot of mugs in ... charcoal") and watercolors which he scornfully labeled "Triple Bosh," "Blokes," "Idiots of the Mountains," "Intertwingles." But they were never enough to free...
...with a bulging nose and "a beard that resembles a wig," he was a melancholy bachelor who could "blubber bottlesful" over Tennyson's poems. The son of a bankrupt, he began painting for his living at 15. It was as a painter, and not as a writer of "bosh," that he wished to be known...
...Beatrix Potter was long since dead-a notion that Mrs. Heelis of Sawrey did her best to encourage. The few who unveiled her incognita and greeted her as a great artist were received with "the searching, expressionless stare of a little animal." Then she would shout: "Great rubbish! Absolute bosh...