Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mile voyage to Montevideo, Uruguay, worn Captain Gainard came down with influenza. He was ill in his bunk in that port when informed that another sit-down strike had taken place. In sympathy with a local longshoremen's strike, the Algic's crew refused to turn the winches. Too weak to handle the situation himself, Captain Gainard put through a 5,000-mile telephone call to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Commission in Washington. Boss Kennedy instantly sent off a message authorizing the captain to put the ringleaders in irons...
...bunk, it's de-lousy...
...holiday the Fourth of July had it beat a mile. On the Fourth I used to get up right after midnight to shoot off anvils. It made a loud sound. It was a lot of fun. Nobody knows why we celebrate Christmas-to keep up the old bunk I suppose. Some religious people think it is the day Christ was born. They don't know any more about it than a woodchuck." Mrs. Darrow admitted that her husband's opinions were familiar to the family, "but we have always seen to it that the youngsters enjoyed the holiday...
...idea that a Boston audience, or for that matter any audience, sits on its hands, is pure bunk. Once the people pay the price of admission, you've won them over. . . That's reasonable, isn't it? They paid to have a laugh, now all you have to do is give them...
...Herbert H. Lchman. "The high priest of real democracy" indicated that he would support Bleakley as well as Landon, and nothing could more surely attest to the present Governor's repugnance to followers of Jefferson. Anyone who takes to heart former Governor Smith's admonition to separate the political bunk from the facts must come to agree with him and the men he supports...