Word: bunking
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...there has been a deal of unnecessary mystification, much of it "bunk" about this "theatre theatrical" about "the theatre of the soul" and "the souls of the theatre", about Monodrama and Melodrama, about Impressionism and Expressionism, about Physico-psychology and Psycho-analysis, about all the clashing symbols of the sexy saxophone. "Lampy" is justified in his jests about those followers of the Dramatic Club who take all this jargon too seriously. The fact is Evreinov himself preaches that nothing in life is to be taken seriously. That is his cardinal principle. His play is none of these "-isms...
...tired of this stadium bunk whereby 50,000 spectators watch twenty-two men or rather employees battle for supremacy...
...Admiral Sims retired but continued his propaganda as scholar, officer, gentleman, for a better Navy and no bunk. Said he in 1923: "Press accounts of 'terrible atrocities' [of German submarines] were nothing but propaganda. German U-boat commanders aided in the rescue of the crews and passengers of ships they sank...
...Walter N. Koelz, ichthyologist of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, the Naturalist of the expedition, reported a collection of specimens so large that he had filled even his bunk with them and slept in the hold. Included were birds and animals not yet named. Jacob Gayer, staff photographer of the National Geographic Society, had over 1,000 colored pictures of wild life...
Said N. J. State Geologist Henry B. Kummel: "It's all bunk. . . . There's no such thing as a successful machine to locate oil. If there were, it could be 'sold to Sinclair or Standard Oil for a million dollars in five minutes...