Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fact that Ski Club is composed of a bunch of hotshot, down-straight artists, statistics are interesting. Ninety-eight members used the cabin last year. Out of that number fifteen raced and only seven skiers in college, all of whom were members of the Ski Club, received varsity ski team letters. However, members of the team don't necessarily have to join the Ski Club...
...girls in the classes and you would soon see them change their manners," Dr. Littel told the Ridgefield Park mothers. "I never saw such a bunch of tramps in my life...
...invasion bogey-man was sold us last spring and summer. Despite the dissenting voices of such competent military observers as Hanson Baldwin, it was palmed off on us by a slick bunch of gold-brick artists with President Roosevelt as sales manager. Yet common sense tells us that if England can hold off invasion, we, who are three thousand miles further away and three times as big, are in no terrible danger. The surrender of the British fleet is a very remote possibility. Nevertheless, millions of Americans have swallowed the yarn of invasion, while its originators talk cynically of "defense...
With the implacable serenity of a man with a thesis who does not at all mind being a bore, Matthew Josephson continues to tell Americans that their administrators and respectable citizens are a bunch of crooks. He does not always use epithet. In a really crushing mood he just calls them politicians and businessmen. In The Politicos (1938) he exposed the politicians; the capitalists caught it in The Robber Barons (1934). This being election year, Historian Josephson explores the devious ways by which the electorate is hoodwinked while Presidents are made in smoke-filled rooms...
Cline was impressed by the British character and described the English as "a tough bunch to lick...