Word: flimflammed
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...19th century mode of acting and a Continental air of high twaddle-one moment for their value as drama, another for what is the outlines of a joke. Since the chief character in Capek's tale of a strange, century-old lawsuit is a grandiloquent opa singer, tasseled flimflam is never very difficult. Since the opera singer is curiously omniscient about the past and is forever flinging forth, with a veiled countenance, a Who-am-I?, there is a nice audience guessing game in the making...
Political Flimflam. The problem pressing upon the Administration is not how to shrink total spending, but how to keep it from ballooning. Reported Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson and Budget Director Percival F. Brundage in a joint statement last week: With fiscal 1958 only three months old, the Administration's spending estimate has edged up from $71.8 billion to $72 billion since the President submitted his budget to Congress last January. With the Government's income estimate for the year down $100 million (principally because of lower business profits), the 1958 surplus shapes up as $1.5 billion instead...
What then was the clamorous Battle of the Budget all about? Were Capitol Hill's cuts mere political flimflam? Well, not exactly, said Anderson-Brundage. Congress and the Administration, between them, did in fact cut $2 billion out of the original budget. But the trimmings were more than offset by "a few upward revisions" partly due to inflation, partly due to ballooning programs that only Congress can change. Items: ¶ Bumper crops on the farms bumped up the cost of price supports by $739 million (total outlay for agriculture programs in the revised budget: $5 billion, or more than...
When all is said and done, Britain's achievement in 1940 was one of character. Fleming shows his own special character in his assessment of this, resorts neither to Freud nor to any mythological flimflam, but to an editorial in the London Times. It was neither pride nor preoccupation with a job to do that gave the British their strength, says Fleming, citing the Times with approval; it was the universal understanding that all had lost something and would lose more, and that "now the days are all lived for their own sake...
...Bill Holden has been truly happy at nothing. The tensions of the troubled years are tearing at him still. On the one side is the rampant do-gooder he feels he ought to be, forever inveighing against public lust and private indolence, and especially against all the varieties of flimflam, backscratch and general phoniness in which Hollywood abounds. Yet, on the other hand, Holden is a man who in his time has admittedly fired off as many cannon-crackers as the next...