Word: tripes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feelings toward news merely by tone of voice. Their daily entrance into 30,000,000 U.S. homes is very inti mate and puts a premium on voice rather than on brains or integrity. This accounts for the fact that much of the output of U.S. radio pundits is pontifical tripe...
...When he recently turned on Congress, calling its proceedings "99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery.' he stepped on sensitive and corny toes. Said Clapper, "The very heart of democracy is Congress. In the scramble for X cards it was destroying itself, forcing the people to turn to somebody else for leadership...
...Tripe? Congress was not only pained but vexed, feeling that the press had gone so far that the prestige of the legislative branch might be permanently impaired. First had come blasts over pensions, soon followed by attacks on Congressional statesmanship, interlarded with denunciations of relatives on payrolls...
...heat that finally sent Congressmen's rage sky-high was Columnist Raymond Clapper's remark: "People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says. The reason they don't care is that they know what you hear in Congress is 99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on." Protector of The Press. One of the abler men in Congress last week poured out the typical feelings of the better type of Congressmen: "You just can't haul off and indict Congress in general. You say this Congress...
...That won't wash," said Bertie firmly. "Why, it wasn't so long ago that my man Jeeves was reading me some fearful tripe Plum seemed to have written in some transatlantic mag-Saturday Afternoon Post, was it? Some such name. Well, anyhow, some ghastly nonsense about Fascism not mattering as long as it lets one live in comfort. Y'know, sometimes," said Bertie, hitching his R.A.F. uniform to ease the Wooster rump into a more comfortable posture, "sometimes I think Old Plum is getting a bit overripe. An aunt of mine...