Sentence:  Perhaps it helped a man into Parliament, Parliament still being a confused retrogressive corner in the world where lawyers and suchlike sheltered themselves from the onslaughts of common-sense behind a fog of Latin and Greek and twaddle and <WSD>tosh</WSD>. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Rubbish, trash,  especially in the sense of nonsense, bosh, balderdash