Word: humbug
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...should rule." The Mail urged that Congress leaders should be deported "as the Quislings they are." Gandhi, roared the Mail, is "a dangerous and unscrupulous politician whose sole desire is that he and his party shall profit from the war, whichever side wins . . . the nauseating hypocrisy of the saintly humbug...
...Christians, leader of the Nazified Crusader White Shirts, was arrested in Chattanooga, Tenn., charged with sedition for allegedly sending a letter to officers and soldiers inciting them to revolt. Wrote White Shirt Christians: "Does our Commander in Chief have ideas or is he just the world's greatest humbug?" In another handbill, Christians wrote of the President: "Some neck-for a rope...
...Century does not breed his type of courtier-bishop. Since he first caught Queen Victoria's eye in 1896 with his tactful eloquence and for being "so human," he has been the friend and confidant of the royal family-except for Edward VIII, who called him a "sanctimonious humbug." He also is strong-willed and not afraid to speak his mind, even went to the unpopular extreme of defending his friend Kaiser Wilhelm during World...
...times" since "it is to be applied to the nations that have been overrun by Hitler while the independent government which it proposes to give them is denied to territories overrun in the past by Britain." He said that anything except guaranteed "independence of our own colonial peoples" was "humbug, deceit and hypocrisy of the worst kind." He declared that the U.S. was ready to use British bodies "to blast a way into the markets of the Continent and establish the financial system of Wall Street...
Russia's politically naïve many and politically cynical few may have swallowed this without even a gulp of tea, but outside of Russia it did not go down so well. Croaked the London Daily Mirror's caustic Columnist Cassandra: "Come off it, you gnarled old humbug! If ever a man picked up the starting gun and fired it to throw the world into war, that man was Comrade J. Stalin. . . . We can do without this hypocritical bilge, Comrade...