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  • And under all the rumble-bumble of bad ideas is the imbecile assumption of the jitney messiah at all times and everywhere: that human beings may be made over by changing the rules under which they live, that progress is a matter of intent and foresight, that an act of Parliament can cure the blunders and check the practical joking of God.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • It is, in essence, no more than a dramatization of all the current political and sociological rumble-bumble, by Roosevelt out of Coxey's Army, with music by the choir of the First Methodist Church.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • Page 92 he permits himself a lot of highly dubious rumble-bumble about the "inherent Americanism" and soaring democracy of the movement.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • And this in the face of all the altruistic rumble-bumble which war had evoked?

    Broken to the Plow Charles Caldwell Dobie 1912

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