Word: rubbishing
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...could possibly believe what Lawrence believed, and Lawrence hated people if they tried. . . . One day when Lawrence and [his wife] Frieda were out riding in Mexico, Frieda cried out, 'Oh, it's wonderful, wonderful to feel his great thighs moving, to feel his powerful legs!' 'Rubbish, Frieda,' Lawrence shouted back. 'Don't talk like that. You have been reading my books. You don't feel anything of the sort...
...then returns to the comically ugly reality. The second parodies a cocktail party: 30 overdressed men and women wiggle about inside an invisible (and nonexistent) wall in the center of the stage, waving long-stemmed glasses, nodding their heads furiously, and shouting in fearful chorus, "Yatata, yatata, boloney, mismosh, rubbish, yatata." The third impressionist scene is "Allegro" itself: the title song, a freudian ballet, and the gyrations of the projected backdrop displaying the tempo of modern life--allegro...
Kappa books are manufactured by throwing paper, ink and a mysterious grey powder into the funnel-shaped mouths of giant machines. In less than five minutes' time the machines can produce a flood of different volumes-seven million each year. The powder is "just rubbish-brains of asses dried and ground...
...without warning also went about 1,000 other Corporation of London workers-market and street cleaners, rubbish collectors, gravediggers. At 7 o'clock one evening the twin bascules* of Tower Bridge went up, but not because a Thames ship tooted for passage through. The 70 men who operate the drawbridge in shifts had also joined the wildcat sympathy strike over George Turner's three hooks...
...midweek many streets were littered, and the city's health authorities worried about uncollected rubbish. At the London Corporation's burial ground, funerals were postponed or detoured to other cemeteries; the diggers had left only a three-day supply of graves. Few strikes had caused more public inconvenience and discomfort. Londoners found the gates to public lavatories locked; the attendants had joined the strike...