Word: hokum
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...college, but the music bug took hold of Ted at an early age, and he began his vaudeville career at the tender age of nine. Incidentally, the movie in which he played recently and which supposedly represented the story of his life, was classed by him as "ordinary movie hokum...
...less scrupulous authors, Waugh uses some of his funniest incidents (Tony and Mrs. Rattery playing a card game while his little son is lying dead upstairs) to point his pathos. A Handful of Dust is a cunningly contrived cinema of cold wit, tender humor, impersonal satire, shameless, but effective hokum. Only a rare reader will be able to sit it through unmoved either to a smile or a sigh. The total effect is sinister. Author Waugh must be credited with having written a novel truly representative of an age which is partly melodrama, partly farce...
FRESHMAN J. V.'s. Briggs, g. g., Nichols Chase, l.f.b. r.f.b., Fuller Hokum, r.f.b. l.f.b., Skinner Burbank, l.h.b. r.h.b., Thacher Bounakes, c.h.b. c.h.b., Streeter Kelly, r.h.b. l.h.b., Kellogg Wood, l.o.f. r.o.f., Fraley Notman, l.i.f. r.i.f., Seeman Darling, c.f. c.f., Kelley Morgan, r.i.f. l.i.f., Kandoian, (Clark) Arrowsmith, r.o.f. l.o.f., Russell...
...hums her lines so as to sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard Boleslavsky, imported from the Moscow Art Theatre, saw to it that the production had surface authenticity, managed sometimes to make it seem more than what it probably is-a resourceful compendium of dignified and exciting hokum. Good shot: Rasputin ordering the Tsarevitch to look through a microscope at a fight between a fly and an ant, then pushing the Tsarevitch away so that he can see it himself...
...physics. For a period he worked for U. S. Radium Corp. According to the Better Business Bureau, he has been associated with the manufacturers of "Thorone tablets ... 250 times more radioactive than radium." He also was connected with "Arium tablets" and with a "radiendocrinator, a high-priced piece of hokum that sold first for $1,000 and later for $150." His "Radithor" sold for $30 per case of 24 2-oz. bottles, which contained altogether about $7 worth of radioactive material. Investigators last week sought to identify this William J. A. Bailey with the William J. Bailey whom a Chicago...