Word: globaloney
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...Peace lasts 3½. The Ten Commandments, which Cecil B. DeMille expects to release in the next couple of weeks, tops that by a long quarter-hour. In such company, Producer Michael Todd's mighty slice of Jules Verne's 19th century globaloney, since it is only two hours and 55 minutes long (not counting intermission), seems a relative runt; but what the thing lacks in length it more than makes up in what showmen call "holler...
...years before the Democratic and Republican parties adopted the program I stood for in the early '40s-a program that was based on peace and the welfare of the world and which was criticized as "milk for Hottentots," "TVA's on the Danube," and "Globaloney...
...Nellie's speed or her story's excitement, and too little of the period's color. With its weak and whiskered gags, its dime-a-dozen tunes, and its plot that has a muddled Victor Moore competing for a rival paper, Nellie Bly is just musical globaloney...
When Connecticut's Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce made her famed "globaloney" speech last February, enemies of postwar planning seized on the word. Clare Luce complained that she had been misunderstood. Last week she spoke up again, this time on U.S. foreign policy...
Claire Luce's "globaloney" speech was the only one not favored in the list, which included the speeches of Wallace and Churchill, the Atlantic Charter, and the Beveridge Plan...