Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shout their claim to fame in every ear, but when the Mid-West gets together and plans to yell for their section, the East seems to become offended. Eastern papers are said to be a sophisticated lot, but when one of them comes forth with a story filled with bunk and hokum about the so-called "comparatively unimportant college grid contest," then the boosters of the Mid-West cry "On to Harvard" with the largest possible exclamation point added for both Purdue and Indiana...
...Farrar gained, among more just thanks, a reputation for "undue optimism." Said Mr. Farrar in his farewell: "Think of all the adjectives I can now employ! Where I have been accustomed to using 'great,' 'magnificent,' 'heart-rending,' I can now say 'bunk,' 'babbittry,' 'balderdash...
...hair. From the first, his cooking was dubious. Then Captain Lawry and Mate Mortimer felt strangely ill. They were swelling, swelling. They bloated all over to "twice natural size." Fortified with strychnine, Captain Lawry staggered forward to berate Codjo, whom he found, sick as himself, lying naked in a bunk conjuring with three little sticks, a voodoo curse on the ship...
...book by Authors Disney and Mackaye contains only contributions, coaxed from such personages as the presidents of the Lucy Stone League and of the Bush Terminal Co., Authors W. E. Woodward (Bunk) and Irvin Cobb, Professor William Lyon Phelps and David Belasco. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg was allowed to make up one game and, choosing the monosyllable "cdflm," he included among his categories a "kind of candy" and "something you see in a barn." This book also contains blank pages for self-sufficient Guggenheimers and people who like to try outguessing themselves...
...need of these hurried times is that of calm thinking and sharp differentiations. If this Boston stock broker had looked up in such a dictionary as college teachers often edit the meaning of the word, "socialist", had he studied this notorious legal case, he would never have written such bunk...