Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another time there was the problem of the exact noise of a man being skinned alive: pulling apart stuck-together pieces of adhesive tape was the solution. Beheading acoustics were attained by slicing cantaloupes with a cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...
...Psychologists For whom the living soul had bolts and screws Took the blind engines screw by screw apart For 'Readjustment'--not redemption, now--And working in the dark where none can work, With diagrams of the soul's machinery, Taught the new bogus teachers how to make Their automatic robots of mankind . . . Ready to click their heels at the right lie, And march, to Wagner's music, anywhere...
...Jews, Germans, Poles, Czechs, Serbs, Russians (White & Red), Spaniards (Republican & Francoist), Italians, Croats, Ukrainians, Bulgarians and Argentines, who were once united in a brotherhood of opposition to the cotton companies, have been torn apart by Nazi propaganda. The German organization, Opferring, enrolls not only Germans but Argentines, Poles, Ukrainians, Slovaks and Russians. The German Winterhilfe, for needy German colonists, gives very real help to farmers and croppers of other races. So people who once had nothing but dislike for the Nazi regime are beginning to say publicly that Hitler must be a great humanitarian because he helps people...
...jaded clubhouse patrons ($4 admission) and the exclusive Turf & Field Club members (who sit apart in a sort of royal enclosure), the mannequins were a fine aperitif. But they meant nothing to 15,000 racing fans who jampacked Belmont's grandstands. Far more exciting to them were two other innovations sponsored by Belmont's democratic young president: 1) free bus transportation from the Long Island end of New York's Independent subway line; 2) a tryout of the Daily Double (combined betting on the first and second races of the day's card), a workingman...
...told in three stories, centuries apart, linked in mystical fashion by a small article of jewelry, a black, glittering chain which was "forged in the fires of human selfishness." This chain is a symbol likewise...