Word: flubdub
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...national affairs. Does our conception of Americanism . . . cling to the outworn theory of the divine right of kings by which is implied that the affairs of good government . . . must be surrendered into the hands of professional politicians?'' When General Johnson had heard the speech he exclaimed: "Pious flubdub...
...Some of it is plainly superfluous and some of it should be dismissed immediately as the merest flubdub and flapdoodle-inherited rubbish...
...answers and leaps. Touch or pierce that roughneck façade, ever so lightly, and that other something starts, flames, comes leaping back. "There is about him a touch of that agelessness that goes with genius. . . . "... One gets an impression of exceptional force, of honesty, intelligence and absence of flubdub and pretense. . . . ". . . Potentialities of responsive and responsible leadership." The potent Scripps-Howard chain of newspapers, 26 strong, last week published an editorial saying: "An independent newspaper is not a party organ. In supporting Hoover, we will not align ourselves as the enemy or traducer of the good and able...