Word: pap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Philadelphia bustled and tumbled with the 39th convention of the Loyal Order of Moose?membership, 650,000; slogan, "Pap." Some 50,000 delegates attended, together with 1,200 women auxiliaries who were last week admitted to a men's session for the first time...
...Magnavox" stated a fact: the onetime Senator had a big voice. - ED. Lacks Pap...
Most of the present-day magazines and newspapers, in their Women's sections, offer pap that is an insult to feminine intelligence...
...city life, goes back at last to the cows, mountains, little grey home and prospective patter of tiny feet. But with what a difference are these properties handled by a man who writes with a mind instead of a sack of mush! Instead of lollipops we get literature. For pap is substituted philosophy of a distinctly austere variety...
...advise the Congress on the state of the Union, etc. The Constitution does not require the President to be the great moral preceptor of the people. President Coolidge has taken unto himself this extra-legal duty, as has many another President. The late Theodore Roosevelt used to dispense moral pap while he was tossing the "big stick," like a juggler chatting with his audience while his eggs are in the air. President Coolidge, however, in his speech on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Trenton last week, confined himself to revolutionary history and morality. Excerpts...