Word: baloneyed
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...classroom I learn grammar, but such expressions as "nerts," "baloney," "horse feathers" and "son of the gun" were contributed by my American boy friends...
...theory that a barbecue is adequate consolation for a shattered marriage indicates the intellectual plane of Chained. This does not prevent it from being an entertaining specimen of baloney cinema, replete with sex and high life. In it, Clark Gable wears a little mustache and Joan Crawford gives all she has to her performance as a lady. Most vulgar shot: Mike, Diane and their friend Johnnie (Stuart Erwin) unbuttoning their breeches after a large meal...
...like to meet him. From what the chairman says, he must be a pretty fine fellow. I'm here to answer the charges of the Communists. The chairman has announced that the issue before you tonight is that of Communism or Fascism. That's a lot of baloney." "Boooo!" "We're ordinary people here in Pittsburgh. We don't want to be bothered by Communists and Fascists. . . ." "Boooo! Boooo!" "I'm Mayor of Pittsburgh. I deserve a little respect. . . ." "Horsefeathers!" Flushed with exasperation, Mayor Mc-Nair cried: "If you weren't so fooled...
...June, he could not understand how NRA would work. In September, he criticized Postmaster General Farley's distribution of patronage. In October, the New Outlook released his open letter to the New York State Chamber of Commerce in which he said: "I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars." When the letter appeared in the New Outlook for December, it was accompanied by an editorial in which Editor Smith compared the Administration to an absent-minded professor playing "anagrams with alphabet soup.'' Such advertising, however, helped to run the New Outlook's circulation up from...
Declared Civil Works Administrator Hopkins: "If putting 4,000,000 men to work puts me in the grapefruit business, I'm delighted to be in it. I learned the word baloney from Al and I suppose the term 'sour grapefruit juice...