Word: humbug
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...Bughum" is "humbug" sideways. Tell Arch Oboler, whoever he may be, to be more luferac-careful spelled backwards...
...thing about winning a prize is making the acceptance speech. In his twelve years of radio writing, he has done plenty of both. But unlike his writing (Alter Ego, Free World Theater, etc.), Oboler's speeches seldom please radio. In Oklahoma City, in a talk he titled "Bughum" ("humbug, backwards"), Arch paid his respects to radio...
...British had caught William Joyce, alias Lord Haw Haw, the Humbug of Hamburg, and they knew exactly what to do with him. He stood accused of one of the oldest crimes known to man: treason...
...Congress' willingness to waive a sacred trade-union right: German forced labor should be used for the rebuilding of Nazi-devastated Europe. So far, only Russia has announced its intention to use German forced labor. Exclaimed excitable Will Lawther, Mineworkers' Federation president: "It is sheer humbug ... to hail the Red Army in one breath, but in the other to say 'to hell with you' when it comes to footing the bill...
...wholesale social regeneration which so many now seem to expect . . . cannot be affected appreciably by tinkering with the institution of property, but only by taking in hand life. . . . The notion that with socialized property we should have women free and a piano for everybody seems to me an empty humbug." He added: "It is a pleasure to see more faith and enthusiasm in the young men, and I thought that one of them made a good answer to some of my skeptical talk when he said, 'You would base legislation upon regrets rather than upon hopes...