Word: baser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London film critics and similar wardens of British taste hardly knew which way to look. After years of parapet-watching against the baser sort of Hollywood gangster movies, a gangster film popped into town that was really sending British eyebrows up. What hurt like a slug in the back: No Orchids for Miss Blandish was British-made...
There was one Canadian product about which no one was talking. But every ounce of this item, sent south across the border under heavy guard, might outweigh thousands of tons of baser elements shipped north. The item: uranium...
...fame grew, rajahs and ranees, kings and their concubines, seducers and seductresses learned to use musk as a perfume. The Prophet Mohamed wrote in the Koran: "The Seal of Musk. For this let those pant who pant for bliss." The Empress Josephine, to rouse Napoleon's baser nature, used so much musk that the walls of her rooms, for years afterward, were still fragrant with...
...should strike at objectives in Japan and Japanese cities when we have the offensive strength and when such raids will aid the prosecution of the war. We should hit the enemy's fighters and industrial front, but we should not yield to baser emotions and bomb Japanese civilians, little responsible for this war, only for the revenge...
...expression (surprised) but by the sounds (symphonic) he emitted from his instrument, his listeners in Washington, D.C. this week could tell that Sigurd Rascher was no saxophonist of the baser sort. With the National Symphony and Conductor Rudolph Ganz behind him, Saxophonist Rascher's proops and pralalas were strictly serious. And so was Sigurd Rascher, for he is the man who rescued the saxophone from the barrelhouse...