Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Dr. William Norman Guthrie of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie: "Bunk...
Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson secretary-assistant to NRAdministrator Johnson: This new day offers abundant opportunity to our secretaries. . . . The door is open. It is up to the women to make the grade. . . . Pull is the bunk. Push and merit are all that count...
...certificates they otherwise would not have had. But some big bad men thought to worm their way into the companies he had formed and, rather than permit this attempt to divert benefits from the beloved peepul, honest old Sam spent their last nickel in an attempt to prevent it. Bunk! Your attempt to make a martyred hero out of this old fellow is nauseating. . . . You say that "in place of small local operating plants he built big utilities - and built them well, for they still stand, still make money." What of it? ... Did old Sam build these big plants...
...does not appear as either officer or director. * Cord's natural comparative, Henry Ford, whose famed saying (often misquoted) was: "I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. . . . The only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today...
...Walloping Windowblind! No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind; The man at the wheel was taught to feel Contempt for the wildest blow, Tho' it often appeared when the weather had cleared, That he'd been in his bunk below. -Charles Edward Carryl...