Word: bunking
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...emotion of one who has been King for ten long years, "in what you are writing about me, please do not talk about the 'brother of the moon' or the 'twenty-four umbrellas.' I am not the moon's brother. That is all bunk. There is a nine-tiered umbrella in our Siamese ritual, but I have no idea who invented the titles usually ascribed to me. . . . I like the English countryside. The Queen and I have done a lot of motoring. Perhaps we may take a holiday now. I admit I am feeling rather...
...longer do we have to turn on radio programs featuring Stoopnagle and Budd, Fred Allen, or even Joe Penner, in a desperate search for amusement. We have merely to listen to Hugh Johnson caterwauling about "musical blatant bunk from the rostrum of religion" in reference to Father Coughlin, or another "Pied-Piper (Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson...
First they shot and killed the Chinese wireless operator as he slept in his bunk. Next Captain Vikhmann and the first mate's wife were murdered in his bed. Aroused by the shots, Mate Azariev rushed up from below decks, crumpled beneath a hail of Mauser bullets. To show precisely where everyone stood, Captain Taudien & friends then shot six unresisting members of the Chinese crew, two of whom were killed as they slept...
...profit system? Bunk! I still continue to believe that individual endeavor will find its incentive in rewards that will come to it, and without the possibility of such rewards our economy will be stultified. It will be impossible for us to take our place in the cosmos of the nations. The expectation that we're going into a state of innocuous desuetude in this country is so silly to me that I just can't be a subscriber...
...have tended in the past, in trying to lay down principles to parents, to tell them that a child should or should not get freedom. So many controversial theories have gotten parents into a state of pandemonium. . . . You know the kind of bunk that's been handed out time and again...