Word: baloneyed
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...Words & Baloney. While no one would deny that the Argentines might have produced some sort of laboratory-scale nuclear reaction, non-Argentine scientists were skeptical. "This is an interesting series of words," said an AEC physicist, "but it means nothing to me." Said Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, onetime chief of the Office of Naval Research: "I know what that other material is that the Argentines are using. It's baloney." Snapped Juan Perón: "I am not interested in what the U.S. or any other country thinks...
...deportation in 1946, a Luciano lieutenant complained: "Any time anything happens anywhere, they turn the heat on us. Sure, Lucky and I played around with bootlegging and the numbers rackets-who didn't? But all that stuff about narcotics and vice rings is just a crock of baloney...
Chasing Crapshooters. There were others besides Lucky Luciano who had always thought Estes Kefauver's investigation was a crock of baloney. Fellow Democrats had viewed with some skepticism the first moves of the earnest, energetic do-gooding Senator from Tennessee. No trained investigator, he is a 47-year-old lawyer (Yale '27), a liberal Southerner who opposed filibusters on principle and advocated Atlantic Union, an industrious student who has written a book on modernizing Congress, a reformer whose chief accomplishment as a politician was his defeat of Memphis' Boss Ed Crump in getting himself elected...
...Moto distasteful to his creator. He went on writing about Moto, "but it gradually came over me that slick-magazine writing -where the hero slips on a banana peel and the heiress falls in love with him and they get married and go off to Monte Carlo-was baloney. It was very late and very slowly and largely in a spirit of revolt against this business that I began to write something different. In Apley I drew on a life in which I had a stake. You have to write about what you have lived to get at some worthwhile...
David Work Griffith, 73, wonder man of the early cinema, received an interviewer in his Hollywood hotel room and spoke frankly. "I thought I was a great genius," he recalled wryly. "That was a lot of baloney. . . . There has been no improvement in movies since the old days. . . . They have not improved in stories. I don't know that they've improved in anything. What the modern movie lacks is beauty . . . they have forgotten movement in the moving picture-it's all still and stale...