Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Posing as a "Loafer," he pondered the causes and meanings behind university structures. "The finished shell," said he, "represents the ideals of the college, the type of its education, . . . imagination, independence, . . . enslavement to shadows, to predetermined notions, petrifactions, parchment, self-adulation, pretense and the higher bunk...
...within easy reach of the U. S." Work on the Pelee Island hotel of 350 rooms is to be started at once. Golf links, tennis courts, bathing beaches, 4.4% beer and wine will be there. Still another diversion was proposed. Said Mr. Baxter: "This Monte Carlo stuff is the bunk. Gambling is against the laws of Ontario. There will be a dancing casino, but not a roulette establishment...
...Censorship," as he tellingly expressed it, "is the bunk. Salacious plays when allowed to run unmolested die soon. Censorship only arouses hostility and popularizes the plays censored...
...This is all bunk, as anybody connected with Harvard rowing will be only too glad to tell you. I know such conditions, have not existed during the one and one half years I have been here, and I don't believe such statements ever were true. We are not interested in who you are, but in what you are. If any one of you can show me, and me alone, that you are a better man than someone who now occupies a sea in the first boat, you will...
...started out to laugh at politics-usually not a difficult thing to do. After the first act, it slipped into melodramatic farce with all the values torn into broad comic strips and hurled heedlessly across the footlights. The tearers were a downtrodden doctor who sets himself up as the bunk boss of a small town, and a rich and vapid widow; the opposition was the Irish Imperator of the village. Occultism is included and a fake Hindu servant. Most of the acting was negligible...