Word: rubbishing
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...There comes a time when a person . . . believes that he is abandoned, that he will be killed in any case, and that an alleged confession will appear anyway, and so he signs the rubbish placed before...
...dull; one bride, beautiful and devout; one young lover, handsome and ardent. Stir the ingredients in a batter of love-at-first-sight and courtly ceremony; cook over a slow fire of virtue, grief and remorse; then sprinkle with fragments of broken hearts. This basic recipe for romance or rubbish is served up cold in Madame de Lafayette's Princess of Cleves...
...middle of Boston Harbor is an island piled high with garbage and rubbish. Spectacle Island has long been the dump for central Boston, at great cost to everyone. In 1951 the Coleman Disposal Company will charge $530,000 to truck rubbish to two Atlantic Avenue piers, load it onto scows, and tow it out to the island. Because no new company wants to invest the large sums necessary for scows and other equipment on the mere chance of getting a contract, the Coleman Company has a virtual monopoly. It has held its job for the last 30 years...
Four of the fires--on Prescott Street, Bowdoin Street, Magazine Street, and the one on Monday--all began the same way, in rubbish bins in unattended cellars...
...Gerald says, a painting should "entertain. If it doesn't give you pleasure, why look at it? Too many people have the feeling that if they can't force themselves to like [modern art] they haven't a chance to be considered cultured. What rubbish...