Word: hooey
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...attitude Father Sill inculcated in us." The late Rev. Frederick Herbert Sill, founder and headmaster of Kent, was a thunderous personality whose bolts of reproof struck Jim regularly. Recalls his senior-year roommate: "Jim had read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and he decided Christianity was a lot of hooey. He thought he should enlighten Father Sill, and went over to see him in his study. I remember I was downstairs, and suddenly I heard Father Sill-we called him the Holy Terror-yell, 'Get out of my study, you dirty, stinking little coward!' Jim left, protesting all the while...
...complain to the Dean's Office is Ivy Films, because it feels it has been competed with and it has not done as well this spring as it has previously done. Ivy feels that it has an exclusive right to show films here. This is a lot of hooey. Because Ivy has refused to consider itself on equal standing with other film groups in dealing with Dean Watson, it is out for itself...
...preparation has moved forward steadily, is on schedule, with 91 wings operating, four more almost ready to go. Getting on to the next point, Truman barked that people who talk about saving money on the defense program "are just doing it for strictly political purposes-political propaganda, political hooey, and that's all it amounts...
...rain of dead cats as big as tigers. As he strode into his press conference, he was fairly busting to tell the world that his heart was pure and that he was true to the red, white & blue. There had, he said right off, been a lot of hooey about seizure of the press & radio. The thought of seizing them had never occurred to him, and he couldn't imagine it happening. Then, stepping into his familiar role as a history tutor, Harry Truman undertook to lecture the newsmen once again on some facts of world affairs...
...university drew up 15 elementary lectures on economics, and trained a crew of 34 Republic supervisors to deliver them. When White first tried out the course on 250 supervisors at the Youngstown plant, the men were cynical, expecting "some more of that company hooey." When they learned that they were getting easily understood facts-and a minimum of hooey-about matters which had long baffled them, their interest rose until men were betting on who would score highest in the tests. White quickly extended the lectures to foremen in 26 plants...