Word: humbug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least as far back as 1836. This fact made headlines because there was no "human interest" news about what the Prime Minister had had to say at Margate or about his pipe or his pigs. Stanley Baldwin was absent and absent too was the amiable humbug with which he has led Great Britain for so long, meandering down the winding path of least resistance in both home and foreign affairs. A reborn fighting Conservative spirit was stirring at Margate last week and the Party was veering toward new leaders-slowly, for in Britain the political mascot is always the tortoise...
...telephoned Mr. Bennett's old friend J. H. Thomas [Secretary for Dominions], who is holidaying blithely and typically at Brighton. 'Is this more humbug?' I ashed, in effect. ... 'I haven't read about it and I couldn't say anything in any case' replied Thomas...
Complaining that he had thus been branded "an impostor, liar, falsifier and humbug unworthy of serious consideration," Matador Franklin demanded $300,000 damages from Columbia Pictures...
...more than the moments of sensuous beauty he got at Within the Gates. Mr. O'Casey's point is that the world has been considerably upset since the War, that Capitalism can offer no security, that in the crisis Mother Church has been discovered to be a humbug...
...heading straight for war? That is what you want to know, isn't it? At present Britain is not heading straight for anywhere. She is as likely to drift into war as anybody else, providing somebody else starts the war. You must not be put off by the humbug about disarmament. The possibility of diabolical war must be faced, though I hope and trust it will peter out in general ridicule." In the House of Commons moon-faced Winston Churchill, a jingoist since he first marched off to the Boer War at the age of 22, roared the loudest...