Word: guff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guff. His Excellency the Right Honorable Sir Oliver Franks, Knight Commander of the Bath, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, arrived at Washington. He did exceedingly well at one of the key posts of the postwar world. Anglo-U.S. cooperation is the cornerstone of the peace, of the effort to restore and extend prosperity and of the defense of the West against Communism. The roots of this cooperation strike deep into the histories of the two peoples. But friendship between nations, like marriage and moneymaking, requires attention to detail. As one U.S. State Department official expressed...
...been said and written about what Munch will do with the Boston Symphony when he comes here next fall. Unfortunately, much of it is guff. For example, some chronic worriers are predicting that the programs will be overwhelmingly, and for them unbearably French. But an examination of the programs Munch gave with the Conservatory in France proves quite the contrary. An analysis of two full years' programs show that over two thirds of the music played was not French. A surprisingly large amount of all the music Munch programmed has seldom been played in Boston during Koussevitzky's reign. Munch...
...that it had better not be the cozy and vulgar version of sweetness-and-light longed for by the friends and relations of Oliver Allston [Elder Critic Van Wyck Brooks] or by complacent tinhorn patrioteers. The times we are heading into shouldn't give much encouragement for that guff except in the lending libraries." Added Dos Passos: "Young writers who believe in themselves should be willing to starve in a garret once more...
Hall's view of Harvard men escaping from these war horses to more unusual vehicles is corroborated by Miss Lyons and other people who have to take the guff on the other sides of the record counters in the Square. They are caught between the record companies, which pay little or no attention to orders, sending out what they please, and wrathful customers whom Ed Carr at Briggs and Briggs parodied recently as complaining about "the bourgeois practice of pressing a thousand copies of a hundred items instead of a hundred copies of a thousand items." Despite the irate customers...
...Britt (pop.: 2,000), where they had met off & on since 1900. The "big spuds" (city officials) welcomed them because they lured some 10,000 curious North Iowa visitors to town. In gratitude, the boes ladled enough Mulligan stew from billycans to feed the crowd. They chewed the guff about life on the road and the state of the union. All agreed that times were tough. There were so many jobs to be had, it took an iron will to remain a hobo...