Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recipe for poetry is apparently a dash if wit, a sprinkle of imagery, and a pinch of smut. The last condiment is easy to find despite his commendable ruse in transliterating into Greek certain English monosyllables which always arouse Mr. Dirty Mind, the true-born censor. There is a blank page, whose missing text appears only in the holograph edition, and the penny arcade reader may well purchase that--at $99 a copy--if he wants Cummings straight. No. 16, as it is, has quite a bounce to it, and would hardly be given the imprimatur of a really alert...
...prestige as America's sweethot, should delight those of Actress West's admirers who are especially entranced by her facility in making a stale gag seem fresh by reciting it as though its real meaning were unprintable. Good shot: Mae West's Indian retainer firing off blank cartridges to scare her jockey into winning a horse race at Buenos Aires...
...Asbury Park, Heavyweight Champion Max Baer, rehearsing for a radio skit while training for his June 13 fight with James J. Braddock, contrived to shoot himself in the chest with a revolver loaded with a blank cartridge. He was hospitalized for powder burns...
Waiting on the cobblestones to greet him stood the President of the United States, who presently spoke into a national radio hook-up microphone: "It is no small thing to have filled in another large portion of the map of the world which had hitherto been a blank. It is an equally great achievement to have added valuable information in at least 22 separate branches of science." Then the President of the United States took off his hat and said: "Admiral, I salute you." Then Franklin Roosevelt grasped the Admiral's hand and said: "And let me add just...
...candidate cleared his throat, opened his mouth to speak, then closed it again as a blank expression appeared on his face. The senior member of the committee stirred in his chair. He too cleared his throat, and the now silent group of scholars turned to listen...