Word: duds
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...that either of these two were buying, or that the "New York Central crowd" had stepped in to prevent some competitive merger. Or it might be that John D. Rockefeller, to whom the road owes $11,396,100 plus 71% accumulated interest, was having a little fun with a dud investment. At any rate Wheeling & Lake Erie stock popped up from 54 to 65; Exchange Governors, thinking a corner had been created, ordered members to report their dealings; and trading slowed up. Obviously little gamblers had taken fliers; certainly they had been caught short for about...
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...waist, giving to their lower portions a curious baggy appearance suggestive of small boys in grammar school. He was forever waddling about through the sets on mischief bent, for all the world like a fat sow hunting out choice bits of garbage Without him the picture would be a dud, with him it was able to make this reviewer disgrace himself by getting into a state of weak giggles...
When the trial footage was run off, Director Sti declared that the test tube shots of low and supposedly interesting forms of life, had flopped: "Tiresome! As my friend Douglas Fairbanks says, 'a dud!' Positively sickening...
...London, it was announced that the new Oxford English Dictionary, now being compiled, would include and define English slang expressions coined during the War, such as: "dud," "doughboy," "strafe." The expression "Getting the wind up," meaning "to become nervous," was said to be puzzling the lexicographers, who finally decided to leave its origin indefinite. Common belief is that this phrase originated with the British air forces. Aviators, to whom wind meant danger, used "getting the wind up" as an equivalent for "borrowing trouble...