Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told newspapermen that in a six-months' tour of America I had seen only four intoxicated people. Said I: 'These United States are a Sunday School compared to what they used to be. This talk about gin and petting parties is, for the lack of a better word, bunk I'" Alphonso XIII of Spain: "John D. Rockefeller and I were elected foreign associate members of the French Academy of Arts?I to replace the late Joaquim Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish painter; Mr. Rockefeller to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Shannon, of London. It was said that...
...gone to the side of those playwrights who devote three acts to putting the younger generation over their knee. One of the widow Helena's sons is a young shrub who is in danger of being plucked from preparatory school for loudly summarizing a patriotic address as "Bunk!" The other writes for a magazine ai which free love is the burning creed. The widow's prescription for curing them of the New Freedom is as follows...
Percy Hammond: "Scientifically, The Outsider is, as Mr. Dempsey would say, 'the bunk.' . . . But Mr. Atwill is gorgeous as the quack-doctor; and Miss Cornell's realization of the passionate lame girl seems a perfect thing. I suspect she knows more about honest acting than any of the other actors of today...
...There is so much bunk in the papers nowadays that I don't bother to read much if it," said Coach R. T. Fisher '12 to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday in connection with the craze for "All--" football teams which has flooded the press of the country. "A newspaper football expert sees perhaps nine or ten games in a season, gets what information he can from press accounts and from hearsay, and then blossoms out with an All-American, All-Eastern, or All-Something-or-other team. His story makes interesting reading. The public eats it up and calls...
Correspondents were in accord as to the new Senator's dialect. He said for himself: "I ain't ignorant and a lot of this stuff that you read in the papers making me say things I didn't is all bunk. ... I didn't say that I didn't give a dam about books. I mean, I didn't say it that way. Some books ain't worth readin' and some are. I ain't got much time for 'em, but I would read 'em if I had time to read 'em.'' As for his favorite author, he declared...