Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insisted that his company did not wish the conference to fail, but was interested in knowing if cruiser reductions were to be made. He thought Shearer was paid too much, that his "ordinary business judgment had been disarmed" by Shearer's plausibility. Shearer's reports had been full of "bunk." He had only glanced at two or three, and when he learned of Shearer's big-navy propaganda he had insisted on his discharge. Mr. Bardo admitted that Shearer was later re-employd by Laurence Russell Ilder on a project for building liners to cross the Atlantic in four days...
...Bunk!" cried Dr. Joseph A. Themper, Board Chairman of N. A. O. B. L. "If there'd been any deep-seated desire to receive those opposed to Sunday blue laws, it would not have been impossible to arrange a meeting witl the nation's executive...
...When we retired for the night it was still light. . . . The sea was absolutely calm. I was awakened by a terrific crash which threw me partly out of my bunk. . . . I ran in my nightdress out into the saloon where I found the Prince and Princess also in night clothes. . . . Water began coming in on top of me through the portholes. The Prince aided me out on deck, returning to get the Princess. . . . They had told a sailor to swim with me, as the captain said that the ship was sinking so fast it was impossible to make...
...zink zis is ze joke and zey get zemselves, what you call it-pooblicity. To me, zo, it is ze serious mattair. Zey have exploited my name, zose dry agents, to put zemselves on ze front page. ... I zink it is all-what you Americans call it? -ze bunk...
...people, where no defense was necessary. In a fine passion he tells what a great people we are, and how nice everything is here. He defies students living on the "gold coast" of Harvard College, and a lot more of the same stuff. All of which was just plain bunk...