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...shark, as the flapper dodges "lectures," so do editors shun the machinations of a species whose villainy is (to editors) as plain as the nose on your face and as hard to clap your eyes on. This species was for a long time called "press agent." His "hoy," "bunk" and "bull" stories, his hoaxes, false fronts and fabrications were easily detected and. cast out when he was in his professional nonage. Then he became a "publicity agent" and a "moulder of favorable public opinion." If there is anything an editor hates to do it is to give something for nothing...
...This talk about high-priced lawyers getting criminals off is the bunk...
...hated . . . laughed a good deal . . . built some houses . . . brought up my children . . . thought a little . . . and?" The Angel of Death interrupted, "That was Life." Thus Mr. Woodward prepared for his story: After a successful career as a vender of thinking?wholesale and retail?Michael Webb (friend of readers of Bunk) establishes himself at Echo Hill Inn in Connecticut. In this labyrinthine tavern with steps up, steps down from room to room, with a billiard room that is half of the kitchen marked off by a broad red line across which the cooks dare not tread but over which they pasa...
...discover the new America that contains great corporations and great trade unions, New York skyscrapers, Chicago stockyards, Pittsburgh steel mills, Florida land-rushes. West Virginia strikes, Herrin massacres, Ku Klux Klans, Legions and Leagues, labor spies, tabloid newspapers, jazz, lynching, sports, mortgaged farms, farm trusts, romantic fiction magazines, movies, bunk morality, bunk religion, bunk politics, imperialistic adventures-the new America that all the rest of the world watches with mingled horror and admiration...
...Moses, mountain, chief and head of Past Tample, thank Pharaoh Hiachepsat for having drawn me out of the Nile and helped me to attain high dignities." This is the grand message, the revelation of the Hebrew lawgiver, Moses, according to one scholarly gentleman. According to another it is bunk drivel. The question, therefore, like the sword of Damocles, remains suspended...