Word: flubdubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eugene Kelly's) most famous specialty is baiting William Green: 'Come, come, Mr. Green, will you stop handing us that flubdub...
TIME erred in implying that Reporter Kelly made President Green the sole butt of his baiting. Reporter Kelly's usual comment at conferences with Secretary of Labor Perkins is: "Well, we see you've been defending John Lewis again." TIME also erred in substituting "flubdub"' for Reporter Kelly's far better word, "flapdoodle...
...Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome and for the law in Philadelphia and Washington. His most famous specialty is baiting William Green: "Come, come, Mr. Green, will you stop handing us that flubdub...
...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...