Word: hokum
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Even the most rabid Klansman must feel at times when he puts moth balls in his uniform after a parade, that perhaps history will sneer at him, at his fiery crosses and his spooky Klonvocations. But, at least, in the encyclopaedias where uncolored statistics can cover a multitude of hokum, he and his several hundred thousand "brothers" will get Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern...
...Birth. Loafer pointed to the buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which catalogs call: "classical Roman laid out in the French manner." Loafer called it: "A factory attempting the Roman in a derby hat . A picket-fence palace. A hairless, scrubbed and tasteless eunuch playing dominoes. . . . The hokum of the 'pseudo classic...
WHITE COLLARS- A good central idea, plus the great middle class getting hot under its white collars over some favorite hokum...
...shod horse abovestairs. He knew his oats, he knew the big-town song-and-dance, the Broadway poker-game; but love was a word he believed in. He put a wallop in that word, but was leery of saying so in gabfests, because most "gogetters" thought it was hokum, and he was a go-getter. "Big money" was what he wanted. He got a job promoting Sawkin's Hair Salvation, gave it up, started a hash-house. Sometimes he was up, sometimes he was down, always he was lonely, always there were the women. Mr. Black must have known...
...Simone is as definitely Art as Abie's Irish Rose is indefinitely hokum. The French tradition is precise, rigorous and quite apart from life. Stage effects have been tested, analyzed and put up in little packages. Declamation and gesture have been rubbed by custom until they shine like polished pendants. In diagrams and model groups they cluster contentedly about the theatre and quite diffuse the raw beams of light and life...