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Word: bunking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other and to our customers of our great love for the dear public and of the duty and privilege of slaving endlessly that it may be well served, we are dangerously close to maudlin sentimentality. ... I would like to see a reaction from . . . back-slapping uplift . . . and plain, unmitigated bunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tidy Tiddbit | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Mexican rhumba outfits and hot string ensembles to conducting a full symphony orchestra. Rockwell O'Keefe agency in Chicago says that it will deliver Art Shaw and band in time for contracted date in February. Big stuff of same agency in New York, Mike Niedorf, claims that this is bunk, that if and when Shaw forms a new band he will be delivered otherwise not . . . Columbia expects to release soon a piano album of eight sides with one side apiece by Jesse Stacy, Clarence Profit, Mary Lon Williams, Count Basic, Jimmy Johnson, Pete Johnson, and others. This reviewer heard several...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

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