Word: tripe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there is a certain aroma of a cold New England codfish over the entire half-year." That, of course, is a pretty low brand of tripe. Morison focuses his historical spotlight quite impartially over all the thirteen colonies. If he does devote two lectures to the early history of Harvard College, he carefully specifies that he considers the diversion a trifle disproportionate, unnecessary modesty, one would think, from the College's official historian lecturing in one of the College's very oldest buildings, especially since the early history of Harvard is almost one with that of the colony...
...Main Line dogs. He now prints a menu from which the client may order according to his dog's tastes or his veterinarian's advice. Entrees include beef hearts (16? per lb.), beef liver (20? ), beef kidneys (19? ), beef head meat (12? ), lamb (16? ), lamb hearts (16? ), tripe (11? ) and tongue (21? ). Beverages are cod liver oil, haliveroil, lime water, goats' milk, beef broth...
...most successful propagandists in the world and yet few people are aware of the existence of the large and persistent flood of English propaganda. But the Germans are not very clever about it; most of the German people must, in fact, be damned fools to swallow the tripe that is shoved at them. When the moment of awakening comes they will simply refuse to swallow any more; and then a process of revolutionary disgorging will commence which will create a highly precarious situation for Herr Adolph. The only way of avoiding this situation is to divert the minds...
...been clouded with acting and plot and all that. However, in "Call Her Savage," now at the University, Hollywood has gypped the customers. Not that Clara doesn't get plenty of chances to display those well-known charms; she does, much. But there is so much unadulterated tripe in the way of scenaric pathos and bathos on the menu that the delectable morsel of Clara's face and figure is insufficient to prevent acute disorders in the customer's digestion...
...American short-story . . . supplies the good citizen with a half hour of pleasant amusement and diversion. The stories are tripe: the editors know it, the authors know it; and, if the public is in ignorance of the fact, I can't see what harm that does...