Word: antisepticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From "private sources" in London, a New York Timesman got this masterpiece of antiseptic journalese last week:
The train was clean and comfortable, with the antiseptic smell of a hospital. Each ward car had an operating room. Nurses in stiffly starched uniforms walked down the aisles. Just before it pulled out, chaplains came on, bringing cigarets and candy, magazines and books.
Ever since Franklin Roosevelt began lopping off one New Deal head after the other, professional liberals have viewed his shift to the right with bewildered alarm. Last week the New Republic's intellectual George Soule, who is known in liberal circles for his antiseptic aloofness, quietly dissected Franklin Roosevelt...
Peace Business. It is peacetime prospects that really excite George Gallowhur. In a healthy, antiseptic postwar world he sees mankind free of sunburn (Skol), free of bug bites (Skat) and "Puratized" of fabric-borne germs. He imagines everything from toothbrushes to children's departments in stores automatically made antiseptic...
The term evacuation hospital may have a sound unpleasantly antiseptic to civilians. To the badly wounded soldier it sounds like the difference between life and death. For the "evac" hospital is the nearest place to gunfire where a wounded man can get more than emergency treatment. Until he gets there...