Word: poppycock
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Ivica stayed home brooding. So he was too old and too weak. "Budalastina [What poppycock]," he muttered. "I am stronger than all the men of Bol, and I will show them." Ivica knew a cove along the shore beyond the village. Hiding in the rocks of a reef 50 ft. out was a giant conger eel. For years the men of Bol had tried to catch it and had failed. Every day after the younger men had rowed off to the fishing grounds, the old man clambered along the rocky shore to the cove and cast toward the reef. Always...
...Sleeping Prince (by Terence Rattigan) turns on his side now and then, and mumbles and stirs, but never once wakes up. Having given Broadway-in Separate Tables-the season's liveliest theater to date, Playwright Rattigan here blindly scattereth poppy while contriving poppycock. His scene is the Carpathian legation in London at the time of George V's coronation. His "occasional fairy tale" concerns a fetching young American chorus girl whom a Grand Duke invites for supper, and the night. But after a night rendered blameless by too much vodka, she stays on to meet and beguile...
...ordinarily amiable English bulldog who has been carrying TIME clenched be tween my teeth each week to my master, I resent the human reporting in regard to the sterling qualities of my breed in your Feb. 28 issue. "Disobedient," "broods," "lazy," "never plays!"-Poppycock! At my present age of six years I will . . outpull any team of horses-in proportion to my weight. As for not playing, my master says I wear out toys more quickly than any other dog . . . . If by "unsociable" you refer to a certain digestive peculiarity that results in a sort of double-barreled halitosis...
...current foreign policy [May 31] seems more like what America would like to believe than a true explanation of the facts motivating Britain's stand. To say that Churchill is "old and feeble," his states of mind are "fitful," and that he borders on ineffectiveness, is poppycock . . . Laguerre's statement, "It was the Tories, not the Socialists, who advocated appeasement of Hitler," is a wonder. Does he mean the Socialists were for vigorous action at the time? Then, as now, the Socialists opposed rearmament and were, if anything, more of a peace party than the Tories ... He ascribes...
I.C.I, and its current boss, Dr. Alexander Fleck, a dour Scottish chemist who took over the chairmanship last July, think that the argument is poppycock, have recently issued a booklet defending the company's position. Says Fleck: "Private enterprise has . . . enabled our organization to grow in a way which is vigorous, resilient, progressive and effective." He points to the fact that I.C.I, spends $10 million a year on research alone, has upped postwar plastic production 210%, and already has spent almost $400 million for new capital construction in the United Kingdom since 1945. With their new program, Fleck...