Word: blurbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bible's most flaming story of transgression ... A tremendous cast of thousands recreate a world of passion and fire!" This kind of overheated advertising blurb (for David and Bathsheba), and the kind of movie it is designed to sell, goaded Britain's leftish-highbrow weekly New Statesman and Nation into inviting its readers to invent puffs for other cinematic possibilities in the Old Testament. Last week Hollywood tittered a little self-consciously at the results...
...recruiting blurb for the Army, the picture is top-notch. The "I" of the title turns out to be Uncle Sam, of all people. All the able-bodied men of draft age and a little bit over who appear in the film sooner or later wind up in the services, feeling extremely noble about it all. Really fills you with spirit...
...more than half a century he kept a large audience laughing with his poems, literary satires and essays which he illustrated himself (Are You a Bromide?; Look Eleven Years Younger) and his word definitions (Burgess Unabridged). Some of his own coinages have become firmly fixed in the American language: blurb ("self-praise; to make a noise like a publisher"); bromide (trite saying); and goop (child with beastly manners). A few that never caught on: ivog ("food on the face; unconscious adornment of the person"); slub ("a mild indisposition which does not incapacitate"); quoob ("a person or thing obviously...
...publicity blurb recently issued by the "Lonesome Gal's" manager claims the "honey-voiced disc jockey has entwined herself with the Ivy League, and is a detriment to studying...
...Korea Patrol" is another slapped-together blurb about the Korean War. This one concerns a six-man American and South Korean patrol which is assigned to slip through the entire advance guard of the invading Communist Army in order to blow up a vital bridge...