Word: bunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bunk!" exploded Samuel Instill few weeks ago when asked if he would resign the presidency of Affiliated Broadcasting Co., his first step over the sill of big business since his utilities empire crashed in 1932. Shortly after the first of the year, Insull friends put up $200,000 for A. B. C., gave the old utilitarian the presidency, let him pick three members of the five-man board. Profits of the chain (21 stations in the Midwest) stayed out of sight but the bottom of the original pot did not. Few weeks ago after Vice President Quisenberry shot away President...
...somewhat tedious Kansas University song, The Crimson and the Blue, the Landonites studied the merits of I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby but finally passed it up as dangerous, catchy though the air is. Official campaign words for Oh! Susanna, with their phrases about "regimented Bunk" and "the dear old Constitution" (TIME, June 15) were turned out by Win Williams and Romney Gifford of the Landon publicity staff...
...Ship of State is on the Rocks And soon it will be sunk. It has no pilot at the wheel But regimented Bunk. It wanders to the right and left, It flounders all around. It needs a Captain on the Bridge Whose reckoning is sound. London, Oh! Landon, will lead to Victory, With the dear old Constitution And it's good enough...
Engineering News-Record jumped to defend excavators everywhere by editorially calling the Gauley Bridge furore "fantastic bunk." On the other hand, "The time has come," declared that journal, "to bring out authoritatively all the facts of silicosis hazards." When the inquest was petering out for lack of wind last week young Senator Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia appeared before the House Committee with a commonsense statement: "This was and is American industry's 'Black Hole of Calcutta.' I have had first-hand knowledge of it for several years-despite a combine of big-business silence. Unhappily...
...Manhattan, young Socialite Medora Roosevelt, having told newshawks last month that coming-out parties were "the bunk," found her own coming-out party disappointing. With her brother and two young friends, she left it, went to Childs Restaurant for supper. On the way out, the four discovered they had no money. "We'll wash dishes for our supper," announced Medora. The manager wrung his hands, pointed out that he already had a professional kitchen staff. The determined four marched into the kitchen, seized mops and began swinging them under other diners' feet. Hovering unhappily, the manager suggested that...