Word: pap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duty's very priestess, she was approached last winter by exceedingly ironic Biographer Thomas Beer. In The Mauve Decade he tore aside her veils of sentiment and revealed a harried housekeeper with bone-aches and a lounging father, most scornfully scribbling out what she herself called "moral pap for the young," to make ends meet. He showed that she herself read the racy French and Russian novels of her day; that she was gaunt, dowdy, with a deep tinge of cynicism. At the same time, he noted the fact that she was indefatigable; that she sewed up baseballs...
...ached; her voice had become hoarse and coarse. . . . She must nurse her mother and pay Pa's debts. . . . Alcott went beaming and rosy in the very best broadcloth and linen to lecture on Duty, Idealism and Emerson. . . . Duty's child was hard at work, writing 'moral pap for the young' in her own phrase, and paralysing a thumb by making three copies of a serial at once. . . . Notices mentioned that Louisa May Alcott was a type of the nation's pure and enlightened womanhood...
...sometimes think that we should tear down the Statue of Liberty from the summit of this Capitol and place a big black pap bottle in its place. The idea seems to be that the Government is something to which resort is to be incessantly had for the coddling and artificial stimulation of private interests...
...salary raise; but nobody wants to pay it-least of all the great interests which benefit by low parcels post rates. Senator Edge is half-father to a bill which would take $150,000,000 from the taxpayer and give it to the postman. This is denounced as political pap, for although the postman cannot vote, he can influence innumerable votes by his daily journeys to the homes of the voters. Mr. New, both as a responsible Cabinet officer and as a public official of unspotted integrity, refuses to countenance any such Treasury raid. But he recognizes that the present...