Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adman-Novelist Frederic Wakeman hung on them like an albatross six years ago. Even Tide, an advertising trade paper, has often used the term. But in a recent editorial, Tide said it was doing its best to strike the offending word from its copy, sermonized that admen should help banish the term by not acting like hucksters...
...dance fields, has now interested the Dunces in music of the Temperance period. "Some pretty good musicians poured their souls into such stuff," he says, "and it's rarely performed now." One Temperance song the Dunces now use is "Sign Tonight", a deadly serious chant about the pledge to banish rum forever. Saletan thinks college audiences will like that sort of music, if only for its antique interest...
...Food. No matter who wins out in toothpaste, chlorophyll is already providing a bonanza for many other industries. Retail counters are full of chlorophyll products that promise to banish halitosis and B.O. and help heal cuts. On the market are twenty-nine different brands of deodorizing lozenges and tablets, seven brands of chewing gum, four brands of mouthwash, one chlorophyll-impregnated toilet paper, and a cigarette with chlorophyll to take away a smoker's "bad breath" even while he is smoking...
Plot & Prison. Abdul Hamid was a devious, scheming tyrant who hated Reformer Midhat, chiefly because the latter had written a constitution for Turkey. The new Sultan reappointed Midhat as Grand Vizier and set an army of spies to watch him. Soon he had cooked up enough phony charges to banish Midhat and all his followers. Responding to diplomatic pressure, Abdul Hamid restored Midhat to imperial grace. In 1879, however, he had Midhat arrested for the "scissor-murder" of Abdul Aziz...
...them on the beach, bearing the ashes of companions killed by accidents or internal strife, a pet cat and a new version of Inoue's story. The petty tyrant of Ana-tahan, it seemed, had been not Ichiro, but Inoue himself. His highhanded rule caused his compatriots to banish him from their group to a lonely spot on the island from which he had engineered his own surrender...