Chapter 8: Looking Backward, footnote 121, page 354 Ch8 fn. 121 p. 354 Tags: Histories and Biographies, Corruption, Politics John James Ingalls, A Collection of the Writings of John James Ingalls: Essays, Addresses, and Orations (Kansas City, Mo., Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1902), 183-98. In nineteenth-century usage syllabub meant frothy or insubstantial.