Word: bunked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...show began before the convention was called to order. Howling delegates from Illinois, Pennsylvania, Connecticut. New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maine, Indiana started a parade. "We Want Repeal, No Bunk." read signs carried by the Illinois contingent, which also displayed a row of beer cans hung between two poles. Chairman Snell managed to stop this with his bungstarter...
...approaching business recovery. Prosperity, sure as the sun, will rise tomorrow morning. . . . But for God's sake, keep politics out of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. We're not giving any money away. We're loaning it on adequate security. We could have political bunk and political smut committees and damned demagogy down there at the corporation but we're doing a business job and, damn it, we intend to continue doing it. If we make any mistakes wait until the return of better times and then, if you want to, give us hell individually. . . ." Charles Gates...
While Arsene Lupin was being made, Hollywood heard that the Barrymores were squabbling on the set, trying hard to steal each other's scenes. This was probably unfounded. Amiable competitors, they first played together in Peter Ibbetson. John, offered the role, refused it as "sentimental bunk" until he learned that there was a part in it for Lionel, then an illustrator at $50 a week. The play ran four months. Later, planning a fishing trip together, they expected it to be postponed a week or two by The Jest, which ran nine months. When they met for the first...
...bars down and there is no telling what will happen. If Japan is allowed to proceed this time, it's dead sure that she will become much harder to handle next time. And as soon as other dissatisfied nations find out that all this anti-war talk is the bunk, do you think they are going to grow sweeter and more tractable? Not much, And then how long do you think it will be before we are all engaged in the time-honored pastime of using up all our wealth, both human and material, in a nasty fight? No long...
...most profound respect for almost all forms of Christianity, or even, of "Religion," though I do not find it necessary to capitalize the last word at every turn like your anonymous correspondent, the inference being that his religion is true and holy, and all the others the sheerest bunk and rubbish. My doxy is all right, and your doxy is a bad 'un, as Carlyle was wont to remark...