rumble-bumble

[rumble + bumble] cf. rumble-jumble

a miscellaneous mass or mixture: jumble, hodgepodge

"And under all the rumble-bumble of bad ideas lay 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." -- H. L. Mencken, writing of H. G. Wells, Prejudices (1919)

"He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on
the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort
of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble
and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash." -- H. L. Mencken, of Pres. Warren G. Harding's bloviations, The Baltimore
Evening Sun (1921)

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