Word: tripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such is the quest for new titles to old dishes. And the tripe served up this time needs a new name, indeed. A lot of vacuous material is handled in a devil-may-care fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby...
...story is so much tripe. Coleman breaks the bank at Monte Carlo using his friends' money as a stake. The Casino puts a pretty girl, and Joan Bennett is that, on his trail to lure him back to gambling. But she falls in love with him just as he falls in love with her. They have an awful todo when they discover the real identity of each other but get married anyway and apparently Joan becomes a Grand Duchess. While the whole thing is rather amusing, it is time Coleman were allowed to do the character parts for which...
...Author Caldwell has grossly erred and TIME, in playing up such far-fetched tripe, has reflected on the integrity of the people of a great State, and should hide its face...
Appearing like worms on the sidewalk after a rainstorm, petty publications are deluging the students with adolescent tripe. The appearance of a second number of the Yale, Harvard, Princeton Guide gives evidence that these parasites can exist and, in fact, are right now likely of becoming a permanent fixture...
...Best People. Authors Douglas & LeCocq disclose some of the secrets of its complex simplicity, consisting of " 'um's, 'aw's, and 'er's, the meanings of which vary according to the context. 'Um' may mean 'These are good tripe and onions.' 'You smell like a rose,' or 'Waiter, another whisky and soda.' This sort of thing makes it difficult for the foreigner, but the English themselves can tell instantly what is meant by the lack of inflection in the voice and the complete absence of expression...