Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pastor Niem&2461ler became an anti-Nazi the hard way. He was a staunch early-Party member. But when he saw how the wind was blowing, he stood up in his Dahlem pulpit and denounced Hitler's mumbo-jumbo racial theories. He also refused to put the will of Der F&252hrer above the will...
...patient's needs. And some Chinese medicines have panned out by Western standards (e.g., "ma-huang," known in America as ephedrine, a drug which constricts blood vessels). But Dr. Chang is an exception: in the hands of most village practitioners, the native craft has degenerated into superstitious mumbo jumbo...
Billy Rose, jigger-sized impresario of jumbo-sized shows which provide him with a jeroboam-sized bankroll, peeled off $29,500 for silver banqueting and tea services at a Manhattan auction...
Instead the State Department resorted to a mumbo-jumbo of wishful nonsense. Prize specimen: "You cannot say that our policy is ever static. It is developing with new developments. But there has been no change in our policy...
...secret of Rose's success is that whatever he produces makes a good story long before it makes a good show. Jumbo promised to bring the circus to the theater, and Carmen Jones the opera (in blackface, too). The first Aquacade, in Cleveland ("I'll use Lake Erie for a stage and Canada as a backdrop"), was going to turn a swimming meet into a musicomedy. The second Aquacade, at the New York World's Fair, starred Eleanor Holm, whom -just as soon as Fanny Brice divorced him-Rose was going to marry...