Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...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...