Word: claptrap
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...conductor would not hold the train long enough for him to complete a sketch: "Damn the fellow. He has no feeling!" His work was championed by such men as Critic John Ruskin and Painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and commanded top prices. But it was also called the worst "claptrap ever painted...
...Chop the old college tie off of the kook that is promoting this Ivy League claptrap and send him west of Pennsylvania for a few months. In this part of the country only the fainthearted who fear being turned down by Rice apply for admission to Harvard, Princeton or Yale. TOM SCOTT Amarillo, Texas...
...English folklore, the flow of a man's blood was supposed to be governed, like the ocean tides, by the phases of the moon. Modern medicine, of course, only chuckles at such claptrap. But now a Florida eye, ear, nose and throat specialist has gathered scientific evidence suggesting that there may be something to the old belief after...
...widely and justly admired, particularly by fellow composers, the man who created them has always had to make a living doing something else. Gerald Gore is only one of nine pseudonyms under which Riegger has written about 400 arrangements at $40 apiece. Most of them, he testifies, "were claptrap; they were well done, but none of them caused any thrills." Nevertheless, they "turned an honest penny" for Gore-Riegger; along with teaching, they enabled him to devote the rest of his time to the compositions that, far from claptrap, are among the most distinguished of his generation...
...defense by Massachusetts' Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy. Here and there, a speaker attacked the "Warren" Supreme Court: Mississippi's James Eastland scornfully labeled the Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the 1957 Civil Rights Act as "crap" (though a thoughtful clerk recorded it as "claptrap"). Arkansas' William Fulbright, time-tested segregationist, took the occasion to lambaste President Eisenhower for turning the U.S. into "a 20th century Babylon, headless and heartless, a big fat target of the ably led Communist world and the clamoring, poverty-ridden new states...