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Word: humbug (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Humbug to all these highfalutin scientific explanations of the eruption! With all the pollution we've caused, the good ole earth just plain vomited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1980 | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...plays of G.B.S., talk is the moral equivalent of war. Shaw's weapons are lancing wit and blazing rhetoric. He wages a holy war against middle-class hypocrisy, capitalistic exploitation, the ser vile status of women and humbug in all forms. In Misalliance Shaw argues that the time (1909) has come to blow up the family. In his view it is a web of contractual coercion masquerading as love and care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Shaw & Co. | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

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