Word: poppycock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poppycock!" snorted Major Elliot...
...Instead of using what is really known about Richthofen: his innate love of the chase, his early cavalry training, his duel with the English ace, Major Lanoe G. Hawker, whose plane he brought down after a fierce, magnificent combat, the producers waste three-quarters of the film telling a poppycock love story about one of his friends. Most of the photography is poor. One of the rare good shots: newsreel of the actual crowd waiting in Berlin streets to see Richthofen's body carried by. Gold Diggers of Broadway (Warner). Avery Hopwood's comedy about a rich...
...walker's back; his strides activate it; it in turn "energizes his nervous system." He may climb mountains with as little effort as walking a sidewalk. A larger machine should enable one to walk "in birdlike flight." U. S. neurologists consider the device's description poppycock...
Aroused by this and scores of similar editorials the Anti-Saloon League, vigilant, called attention to historical facts which prove that most despatches from New Zealand concerning the referendum, last week, were either poppycock in the first place, or were misinterpreted upon arrival...
...Poppycock," was the virtual animadversion passed by U. S. Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps. "Disarmament talk is foolishness while economic conflict remains. War is a continuation of national policy...