Word: tommyrot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cradle of civilization and the birthplace of human conscience, whose origin and development he traced. When he was carried ill from the Conte di Savoia last week the Press revived the mythical "Curse of the Pharaohs" (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), recalled that Oldster Breasted last year snorted: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tutankh-Amen...
...forces, revealed yesterday that there was little or no danger of such a happening in these well guarded precincts. Apted, who at first shied away from the questions in favor of giving his opinions on the need of a national police force, did reveal that such fears were mere tommyrot among the full grown men at Harvard. Although residents of Revere and Malden have been sure that the Minnesota Ford V-8 seen on the parkways and sidestreets of those towns belonged to the Indiana sheriff-slipper, Apted was inclined to chalk such accounts up to profit and loss...
...Ankh-Amen's tomb in March. Of the Sunday-supplement "Curse of the Pharaohs," which is supposed to kill off Egyptian tomb-snoopers and which was revived last fortnight by the death of famed British Egyptologist Arthur E. P. B. Weigall (TIME, Jan. 15), Professor Breasted chortled: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. And if anyone was exposed to it I was. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Amen and took my meals there. I never felt better in my life." With little respect for sober scientific fact, the New York World-Telegram...
...Tommyrot for Negroes. In Denmark, one Max Fornaes, vehement member of the Municipal Board of Frederiksberg, ringingly denounced all U. S. cinemactions...
...American tommyrot which constitutes 90% of all films shown in Denmark, is essentially calculated for Negro tribes and other half wild peoples. The so-called 'sound-films' which have arisen lately have not made things any better, they are merely snatching the bread out of Danish musicians' mouths.* Yet our authorities have been persuaded to suppress Russian films, which are culturally and artistically miles beyond the American...