Word: poppycock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glad to learn from the Head's own lips that canines and humans are equally amenable to his educational methods. Rousseau and all these other modern pedagogues may think that boy-training is a somewhat subtler process than dog-training, but that's obviously poppycock. Come on, old dogs, three rousing barks for the Head...
...Christopher Lonsdale, now a ruddy, gruff and silver-haired 61, the theories of most modern pedagogues are so much "poppycock." "Keep 'em happy. That's their motto. But dammit, there's no easy road to learning." His masters, who sir him as the students do, conduct their classes with Victorian formality, emphasize the Scriptures, Greek and Latin: Boys who break minor rules are punished by extra work. Those who commit more serious offenses get a caning in the headmaster's office...
Fictional characters like Poe's stealthy stabber have given many a whodunit fan the notion that an insane murderer is "fiendishly clever" in planning and executing his crimes. Poppycock, say two psychiatric authorities in a recent issue of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology...
...Tucker, said he, back in July to help raise cash for Tucker's auto project. Tucker's charges of a shakedown now, said he, were merely an attempt to get out of paying him. He threatened to "sue Tucker for the fees and for libel." (Said Tucker: "Poppycock...
...feature stuff. The primary duty of reporters is to tell the truth until it becomes dangerous. There wasn't much of that. Any honest effort to get the real news went out the window with the arrival of voluntary censorship, which was an idiotic idea, a lot of poppycock. The papers fell all over each other thinking up schemes for hobbling themselves that even the military hadn't thought...