Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry D. Perky was not a "dyspeptic lawyer." His invention of shredded wheat occurred about fifteen years after he left the practice of law. He did not "peddle his biscuits in baskets" (bumptious bunk!) either in Nebraska, which he left about 1879, or in Denver, where, in 1893, he was, as always, dignified and rather magnificent. If those who have been trying to make his story sell biscuits had first taken the obvious step of looking up the history of this one of our most characteristically vital Americans, they could have undoubtedly made valuable copy and sold more biscuits...
...tells the chauffeur to take the soldier to the ferry, the Texan, in the tonneau, finds that his big feet encounter the slippers of an attractive showgirl. He brags to his friends about his date and writes for the girl's picture which he pins over his bunk. The complications resulting from his bluff are worked out so skillfully and with so little sentimentality that the people seem real and the situation funny and convincing at the same time ; that the end, confused by an unnecessary sound-sequence, is devoid of kisses, should not spoil this smart picture...
...enough was enough, and he yearned Eastward toward his wife and little girl. His monotonous duty was to pile timber in freight cars bound for the front. At the end of one carload he neatly constructed a cavity for himself, and that night slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched across the snow to the wire enclosure; under cover of the wind screaming through ice-ribbed pines he snapped the twanging wires. Three days later he climbed stiff and jolt-bruised from his living coffin, and stumbled into the forests of-Prussia...
...unfortunate, before the undoubted worth of much of the settlement work, that it has been plunged into disrepute by the bunk of the day But this being the situation it can only be increased by appeals that openly make Babbit baiting and cash the attraction of what passes for unselfish philanthropy. The undergraduate who would naturally turn to such work has not suddenly become a gross materialist But he is necessarily a creature of his age, and repelled by the shabby hypocrisy and business charlatanism that have invaded the domains of service, has poused his enthusiasm in broader fields...
...fellows fawn before wealth) you neglected to state that this prominent member of the nouveau riche is the wife of a man, who after growing rich under Republican regimes and policies, deserted his party SOLELY FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS. His talk about prohibition is THE BUNK. He obeyed his master the pope, in the same way that "Everything" Al would obey that master...