Word: humbug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such commodities as Sugar to subside. Because Japan and Italy had declined to send delegates and the atmosphere of London today is one of panic-Rearmament; because herioc head-scratching has not shown how to deal with the debts (except to arrange at the proper time some technical humbug permitting borrowing to recommence if the U. S. investor will lend); and because the Chadbourne Sugar Restriction Plan has cracked up with overproduction rampant, there was interest last week in the so-called "Oslo Group" led by Premier Colijn of The Netherlands...
...humbug [i.e., legal education], but it's something very like it. . . . Latin questions were proposed after the lecture to the students. . . . But all we had to do was, if the question commenced with 'Nonne,' we said 'Etiam': and if with 'An,' we replied 'Non.' " Winks Northwestern's Wigmore: "But-oh, hum! Now that legal education in the U. S. A. has been delatinized, of course, the current generation of completely cultivated young jurists cannot appreciate [this...
...Commons is about to reconvene this was a good line for His Majesty's Government to take, in preparation for expected criticism from Labor M. P.'s to the effect that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's Non-intervention Committee on Spain is just so much humbug (TIME, Dec. 14). Cynically the London bureau of the New York Times cabled last week: "To keep public opinion behind him, if for no other reason, Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, will give the appearance of great energy between now and the time Parliament meets." It remained to be seen whether...
...Chicago Times Lawyer Clarence Darrow wrote: "I don't know what Christmas is all about anyhow. I think it is a humbug. ... As a holiday the Fourth of July had it beat a mile. On the Fourth I used to get up right after midnight to shoot off anvils. It made a loud sound. It was a lot of fun. Nobody knows why we celebrate Christmas-to keep up the old bunk I suppose. Some religious people think it is the day Christ was born. They don't know any more about it than a woodchuck." Mrs. Darrow...
...short weeks ago, made for Joseph Stalin trenchant verbal replies to Adolf Hitler, for the Soviet Dictator has had no stomach to speak out himself and risk war with Germany. Of Hitler, scathing Radek has said: "The donkey's ears stick out! His Nazi doctrine is utter humbug. Non sensical!" Last week Communists were saying that should brilliant Karl Radek, the Walter Lippmann of the Kremlin, be shot there is no Red able to succeed him in giving wit and penetration to Stalin's stolid, blunt ideas...