Word: humbug
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...Ebenezer Scrooge, chief character in Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol, is first introduced as a squeezing, grasping, covetous old hunks, sharp and hard as a flint, whose favorite remark on all subjects, but especially Christmas, is "Bah! Humbug...
Felon ; fraud ; frozen snake ; gambler ; henchman of a notorious character ; humbug ; hypocrite ; impending insanity ; impostor...
...Decorations and medals are humbug", announces Professor Rasmus Bjorn Anderson of the University of Wisconsin as he refuses the Cross of St. Olaf offered him by the King of Norway for his researches in Norwegian literature. Unlike the subject of Browning's verse he sees little glory attached to a "riband to stick in his coat", when voicing the independence of the West and the freedom of the true scholar, he scorns the tinseled tribute of royal appreciation...
...accept the Cross of St. Olaf from King Haakon of Norway (his native land) just as he had refused in 1889 to accept the Cross of Danneborg from Haakon's father, King Christian, offered for his researches in Norwegian literature. Said Prof. Anderson: "Decorations and medals are humbug...
...Dave" Kirkwood (Clydeside Laborite) protested against "all the humbug that's going on." He thought the Prince should visit the workshops and mines and acquaint himself with the real conditions of workingmen's lives, not with those that had been prepared...