Word: bunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the family Stein, There is Gert, there is Ed, there is Ein; Cert's poems are bunk, Ed's statues are punk, And nobody understands...
...want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough. You'd better change your tune. Good...
...Freshman's preference of the "Yale Records" to the "Harvard Lampoon." We might also commend their pertinacity in resisting the wiles of the coy cowboy, who presumptiously attempts to arbitrate on their literary selection--a task hardly suitable to a constant purveyor of "Collier's Weekly," "World Almanac" and "Bunk...
...five minutes past twelve when I laid down on my bunk in the outer keel. I happened to be looking up and noticed the No. 7 cell was swishing quite more than usual. While looking at this cell the ship gave a terrific lurch sideways and longitudinal girders 7 & 8 gave way as well as some of the wires. . . . About five or ten seconds before she crashed the lights went out in the keel. I ... heard a noise aft and then water hit my feet...
...come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy, surrounded by wolf dogs and olive trees. There she and her friends go about in shorts, blouse and sandals; at night she retires up a ladder into a bunk-bed. Voluminous, witty, her many books are full of sophisticated sweetmeats. Among them: Debatable Ground, The Matriarch, A Deputy Was a King, The Room, Modesta...