Word: tommyrot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three Representatives interested in Mr. Anderson's story, one was an Isolationist. Ammunition for House debate in coming weeks was what they furnished. Embarrassment to the Donaldson Atlantic Line (owner of the Athenia) was what they caused. Said Donaldson in Glasgow: "Tommyrot and absolute nonsense...
Peeks. At its worst, the Fair's nudity is so much peeping tommyrot. Unalluring are the Arctic Girls, frozen inside cakes of ice. Twittering and skipping about with bows & arrows, the droopy Amazons provide a mere comic-strip-tease. NTG's frightened-looking Sun Worshippers make customers the victims of a skin game...
Your talk of bullet-proof glass, for instance, is just plain tommyrot. Even though British law has made the gangster's profession a precarious one in this country, still we do know the difference between bulletproof glass and unshatterable or safety glass, with which latter the Royal car and many others in Canada are equipped. Your insistence upon this entirely fictitious bullet-proof glass is one of the most odious insinuations you could suggest against a loyal people...
...held that Article III-Section 1 of the Constitution* meant the Federal Government could not tax its judges' salaries. The inference was that Congress might sway justice by slapping taxes on its dispensers. That interpretation, acid-tongued Justice Felix Frankfurter in effect ruled this week, is so much tommyrot...
...guiding spirit as chairman of the executive committee, but on the president falls most of the active N. A. M. work. As part of it, President Hook last week made a speech in Pittsburgh. Said he: "To state that America is overproduced, overbuilt and oversold is the sheerest tommyrot. . . . The business future is currently brighter than for months because there is on the part of Congress a more sympathetic attitude toward business...