Word: humbug
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...notice any change whatever in the expression of people's faces. . . . Whether their faces were stolid or keen, arrogant or subdued, not one of them looked happy. Those radiant, laughing faces which you see exhibited in so many Soviet propaganda pamphlets are sheer humbug. The people of Russia don't look like that. They look uniformly disgruntled and unhappy. It is plainly written on their faces that they lead joyless lives...
...Humbug." A sort of Transcendentalist Dorothy Thompson, Margaret Fuller was No. 1 feminist writer of her day. She edited the highbrow Dial, and as Horace Greeley's first columnist ranked next to Poe as literary critic. But she is not remembered for her writing. What survives is curiosity about her personality. Biographer Wade, 26-year-old publisher's editor and book reviewer, will not satisfy the curiosity of more exacting readers, but his biography is well organized and readable. To Margaret Fuller's credit is Emerson's doting praise, many another Transcendentalist's compliments...
...years, independently of Long, on countless bugs, goldfish, rats, worms and dogs. Finally he successfully anesthetized himself and several patients. In 1846, he gave an ether demonstration before the staff of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Said famed Surgeon John C. Warren to his amazed colleagues: "Gentlemen, this is no humbug." Doctors soon took up anesthesia with enthusiasm, but forgot Morton. For a while, he went into partnership with Charles Jackson, a noted chemist and physicist, but finally, homeless and starving, he petitioned Congress for a grant...
Lord Haw-Haw, the humbug of Hamburg...
Thirteen years later, at 59, Irving returned to Madrid as his country's Minister, a man of letters who had perhaps mellowed too young and been boyish too long and whom his fierce contemporary, Fenimore Cooper, then regarded as something of a humbug. Sympathetic Biographer Bowers says his reports on the corrupt and precarious Spanish court made good reading for Secretaries of State Webster and Calhoun. But there is a hint of tragicomedy in the fact that Irving often got no replies, especially to his expense accounts, and that finally his stately letter of resignation was not even acknowledged...