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Today English children wait for Guy Fawkes' Day with its fireworks and burnings-in-effigy as eagerly as U. S. tots yearn for July 4. English lexicographers know that to "do a guy" is to "do a bunk" or "decamp." As a noun "guy" means in England any sort of effigy or grotesque figure. The following example of correct usage of this noun is classic...
Recalcitrant Julian (cont.). Greatly angered and perturbed were oilmen when Oilman Charles Courtney Julian last fortnight denounced curtailment, said, "It's the bunk" (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week Scoffer Julian showed no signs of penitence but obtained an injunction preventing the State Corporation Commission from taking any action against his oil company for non-curtailment. If Mr. Julian succeeds in proving that proration by law is "unconstitutional and void," the unhappy oil industry may again be in a grave crisis...
...curtailer, it seems, is Oilman Julian. He has defied the rule, let his oil wells gush richly. Last week the Attorney General threatened and abandoned a plan to put his company into receivership to force compliance with the state proration order. Said Mr. Julian: "It's the bunk." On the surface last week it seemed his victory. For the list of 73 officials of 59 companies cited for violating the curtailment agreement by the Oklahoma Corpo ration Commission did not include the name of Charles Courtney Julian. But these cases, said the Commission, were mostly not willful ones...
...Present and future orations ... to broadcast the alleged failures of the farm board are only more of the same kind of political bunk...
Whether Chairman Legge thought it was "bunk" or not, the wheat surplus last week continued to brew strong politics. Republican Senators criticized the board for its "do-nothing" policy. There was talk that Senator Borah of Idaho who last week was ordered to northern Maine for a month's rest by his physician would take the stump this autumn in the North-west against the farm board and the Administration's farm relief program, in bitter contrast to his 1928 campaigning for Herbert Hoover. The acreage-reduction scheme was belittled on the ground that a smaller crop...