Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faculty of the truthful blurt: "Almost always, when one of your friends gets kicked down stairs, you're glad. It is a nasty fact, but it is a truth." No matter how sarcastic he feels, he cannot be nasty about it: "There is too much of this bunk about a man having a mind because he has read the classics. It was not Mr. Will Shakespeare's fault that Mr. Tunney, after he had retired from the ring with his million, began delivering lectures about Mr. Will Shakespeare's plays." And though he cannot cast more than...
...this historic situation, Playwright Anderson, with a free exercise of dramatic license, presents General Washington and his men for five sombre days in January, 1778. Scene I is a bunk house at Valley Forge. A squad of Virginians, starved, half-naked scarecrows with rags on their feet and bits of coonskin on their heads, have been issued their evening meal. It is so crawling vile the wretches spew it out. A pair of long-hunters are about ready to go home when General Washington and his staff stride by, looking for men with whole shoes to go on a foraging...
...which he told the people of Hawaii that if the H.S.P.A. lost the suit it would of course do them no good and also that if they won the suit the continental United States sugar markets would be automatically closed to them. Of course this last contention is sheer bunk; and most of the AAA people knew it. But the purpose of Mr. Sturges' speech was to attempt to fool the people of Hawaii into believing that the Island would be economically ruined if the H.S.P.A. won! The Islands were not fooled but were enraged. Officials in Washington admitted...
...pages of the report tried to give the impression that he had committed suicide. French doctors publicly damned it for bunk...
Less brutal was the conduct of slangy Able Seaman Jerry Edgerton: "I kept thinking about that poem 'The Boy Stood On The Burning Deck.' Finally my bunk pals shook me out of it and we decided to go overboard. A couple of girls came up and asked?polite but excited?if we'd mind their going along with us. I said. 'Sure, help yourself to the Atlantic and jump in.' When we were in the water I don't know what happened to one of the girls but when the other seemed about ready to give up I said. 'Come...