Word: tripe
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...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...
...outside half-inch and tipped with black. Dalton's foxes were fed on horsemeat, bread and milk, with occasional young calves. Modern ranch-bred silver foxes are fed cow's milk, with cream added for fat content when first weaned. Soon afterward they get eggs, liver, tripe or heart. Adult foxes are permitted to gobble whole meat, shredded wheat, fish, orange juice, tomato juice, turnips, spinach, porridge, cod-liver oil and yeast...
...Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases is the remedy for "a consumption"-"take a cow-heel from the Tripe-house ready drest . . . two ounces of Isinglass . . . Sugar-candy ... set them in the oven after the bread is drawn . . . let the Patient live on this...