Word: rubbishing
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...back from a smash six-months tour of European battlefronts in her oldtime hit, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, cited some play-acting lines which used to leave Broadway cold but panicked her homesick G.I. audiences: 1) "Italy is a greatly overrated country filled with nothing but heaps of rubbish, dust, flies, stenches and beggars"; 2) "I should be more than willing to give up soldiering to take up some money-making business." Leading Man Brian Aherne reported that when he kissed Actress Cornell on stage, one enthusiastic soldier shouted: "Oh, pass it around, mister, pass it around...
...Harvey); last week Professor Brogan's was Banker H. W. Auburn. Asked by Morley on what date U.S. citizens set off firecrackers, Auburn ventured: "I should say that would be on this day when all the children come 'round and turn out your dustbins." Cracked Fay: "Rubbish." Brogan knew it was the Fourth of July; the British team also knew that cherry pie was eaten on George Washington's birthday, that trees were planted on Arbor...
...duly snubbed, poor fellows, and although they were well-behaved we refused to thaw. The third batch was a fine example of military efficiency and good behavior, and they soon won our friendship. Their lorries, equipment, uniforms were spotless; they nailed tins to every post and tree for the rubbish, dug pits to burn it, swept the roads to keep them neat, were courteous and never rowdy or rude...
Redoubtable Rubbish. But Canudos was a trap. "Canudos invited attacks . . but when the invaders, drunken with a feeling of victory, began separating and scattering out down the winding lanes, it then had a means of defense that was at once amazing and tremendously effective. In the somber story of cities taken by storm, this humble village must stand out as an extraordinary and a tragic instance. Intact, it was very weak indeed; reduced to a rubbish heap, it was redoubtable...
...Jersey Journal, editorializing thus last week, was wrong in one respect. Not just last week's garbage, but a month's accumulation of rubbish, ashes and slops littered the sidewalks and gutters of certain sections of Jersey City...