Word: tosh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have caught Mrs. Simpson, but after her Buick flashed out of Ipswich, police swung one of their cars squarely across the road and blocked traffic for ten minutes. Eminent London counsel in Ipswich for the Assizes who had previously called stories about the King and Mrs. Simpson "vulgar American tosh," ended by admitting to U. S. correspondents in Ipswich that in their entire experience at the British Bar they had never witnessed such proceedings, concluded that Ipswich authorities were acting to please Edward VIII...
...Tosh is the popular impression that France has protected herself with a tight-drawn "chain" of steel fortresses against German attack Actually the $150,000,000 worth of steel and concrete forts are "fence-posts," not a chain. This week a horde of French and Moroccan troops is stringing the fence between the posts digging trenches from fort to fort, stringing barbed wire, testing sirens which at the approach of Germans, would scream so loudly that French villagers could hear them for a distance of seven miles and start to evacuate...
Sheer Confidence. Thus, on price policy, van Zeeland took a position opposite to President Roosevelt's. He announced nothing resembling the NRA, and headlines about NEW DEAL FOR BELGIUM could be charged off as oversimplified tosh. Chief effect of the European currency misgivings produced by Belgium's devaluation was to give a fillip to the notion that "Sterling is the best money," and Sterling soared against other currencies, gold and paper. Smug British bankers plumed themselves once again on the Empire's supremacy in creating sheer confidence out of whatever sheer confidence is made of. Keen...
...science in war is absurdly overrated," wound up Scientist Levinstein, who is considered the Empire's leading expert on war gases. "One might imagine that invention had rendered it possible to destroy a city and wipe out humanity in mass, as it were, by pressing a button. Tosh...
Those who know Commissioner Mackin tosh were not surprised at the commotion his challenge stirred up. He first proved himself an eminent disturber when he at tended the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1920 as a delegate from the State of Washington. Primary voters had instructed him to support the presi dential candidacy of Senator Hiram John son of California. Disregarding his politi cal pledges, he boldly boomed Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for the Presidency. It was largely on the strength of his agitation that Governor Coolidge was nominated for the Vice-Presidency. President Coolidge later rewarded...