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The first Governor of Oklahoma, Charles N. Haskell, denounced President and political opponent Theodore Roosevelt, calling him a "four flusher".
In the 1922 Harold Lloyd silent film Dr. Jack C. Norman Hammond uses the phrase "a four-flusher" to describe the doctor in charge of "The Sick-Little-Well-Girl" in the city.
In the 1948 film "Homecoming" starring Clark Gable, one of the characters calls Gable's character a "four flusher".
The Doobie Brothers included the song "Double Dealin' Four Flusher" in their 1975 album Stampede.
The Four Flusher is the name of an American comedy written in 1925.
A Popeye cartoon released in 1954 was titled "Floor Flusher", as a pun on four flusher.
The phrase was used frequently by screenwriter John Hughes as something of a trademark. In National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark refers to his boss as "four flushing" in his tirade over his corporate Christmas present; in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York it's used by the mafia boss Johnny in the fictional film Angels with Even Filthier Souls; and in Uncle Buck, Pooter the Clown calls Buck a four flusher, which results in Buck punching the clown right in the face.
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why—but the editorialists forget it—terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)