Word: humbug
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...years ago at the Signet Society, and recently published in the Alumni Bulletin, is an illustration not only of his good-humored sarcasm, but also of the strange uses to which he occasionally puts history. Castigating the commercialism of Christmas, and defending Scrooge to the last, he wrote; "'Humbug' was a less than adequate comment on the Christmas saturnalia.... What, one may ask, but a sense of social responsibility could have inspired Scrooge to question the cult of Christmas when there were such goodies for manufacturer and tradesman and banker in Santa's pack...
...things in your magazine have been more sane than the very accurate appraisal you give [Sept. 21] of the role of the late Justice Holmes as an opponent of order. The ridiculous pedestal on which modern skeptics and relativists...have put the master of "humbug" deserves to be toppled...
Blue Chips? Humbug! Along with his predictions-and his digs at bankers and bond salesmen as incompetents-John Fox tries to give his readers a general education on how to play the market. While much of his teaching is sound, he often makes investing appear so easy that those who swallow all his advice could easily lose their shirts. He has only scorn for those who advise buying "safe, sound," dividend-paying blue chips, urges them instead to hunt for the overlooked, undervalued long shot. "Every investment," he sums up, "should be made for the primary purpose of causing capital...
...have given practical proof of my respect for 'Christian marriage' . . . Most of us, I am sure, whether we recognize 'Our Lord's authority' or not, have the same 'ideal' of marriage as the editor ... I hate to use the word 'humbug' in any controversy; but let me say that the Voice of the Church has behind it some very loose and inconsistent thinking . . . If a man divorces his first wife after five years' 'incurable insanity,' he would risk the displeasure of the Church Times on his second marriage...
...English film, "A Christmas Carol" stars Alastair Sim as old Ebenezer Scrooge. Sims gives something to the word "humbug" that would warm Dickens' heart. His growling, penny-pinching version of the shrewd, hated money changer is so frighteningly rendered as to make the audience fidget like Bob Crachit, Scrooge's poor, hard-working clerk. Sim's conversion to a kind, happy man among men is neither maudlin nor unbelievably...