Word: humbugged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Humbug...
...only solution is that your magazine, like most of the others, caters to the wants of the masses. The American people enjoy humbug, and you serve them their favorite dish, instead of opening their minds to the better and truer things of life. I cannot see why the article "Men and Apes" [TIME, June 28] might not have been presented just as effectively had you left out the reference to "Atheist Smith...
...publish too many one and two sided expressions on humbug issues...
...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...