Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agha's success formula is to start a publishing fad, develop another before its popularity has waned. First in the U. S. was he to drop capital letters from a magazine's typography, to "bleed" illustrations to a page's edge. Other dodges of his: asymmetric layouts, wide white margins ("space for your laundry list"), photographs with cockeyed perspective. Says he of his devices: "Their effectiveness begins to wear off when everybody does it. . . . If you are different, you are all right." In a field notorious for its vicious circle of mutual imitation, Agha usually manages...
...incidents were needed to sting Britain into a fighting mood, the Japanese seemed determined to supply them last week as: 1) they bayoneted a British employe of a British-owned Shanghai mill, let him bleed to death; 2) prepared to isolate the British Concession in Tientsin for harboring Chinese assassins; 3) arrested a British military attache and an officer at Kalgan for spying. Yet as the week ended the British and Japanese Empires were still technically at peace...
When one yard cop, who attempted to "break it up, boys!" was bleed down, he called one of his cohorts. The Puritans on the roof thereupon threw gallons of water on them...
...case against the chains rests on the familiar charges that they tend to drive independents out of business, force farm ers to take lower prices for their goods, foster monopoly, and bleed the communi ties where their stores are located in favor of absentee owners. To these assertions the chains have answers authenticated by impartial groups ranging from The Harvard Bureau of Research to the Federal Trade Commission...
...Montgomery Ford) makes the Brooklyn of 1876 a pretty sinister spot. A young Brooklyn lady is kept virtually a prisoner by a father who is a cross between Mr. Barrett of Wimpole Street and Elsie Dinsmore's papa. But just as the audience's heart begins to bleed for the lass, she herself turns out to be a cross between Lizzie Borden and Lady Macbeth, orders her suitor to kill the old man. When he accidentally kills somebody else, she calmly gets father hanged for the murder...