Word: breast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Davis gives a clean, dramatic report of a Cuban revolutionist's gallant death before a firing squad (1897) and leaves him "asleep in the wet grass, with his motionless arms still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across his face, and the blood from his breast sinking into the soil he had tried to free." Winifred Black, the original sob sister, sets the pattern for countless future sob sister leads with "I begged, cajoled and cried my way through the line of soldiers" to get into Galveston after the flood (1900). Then she compresses the harrowing...
Fabian. In Lima, Peru, spry, 100-year-old Juana Rosa Arnaiz explained her secret of longevity: "I never hurry, am late for everything. I was breast-fed until eight years...
...little like an eyewitness account by a visitor from Mars who had read a guidebook before coming. Pink-faced, bushy-browed Westbrook Pegler, stoutly filling a grey suit, chatted amiably with his dandiacal little ex-boss, publisher Roy Howard, who wore his familiar matching shirt, bow tie and breast-pocket handkerchief. Cartoonist David Low, looking just like his self-caricatures, but larger, made quick reminders of the shape of a jowl, the outline of a room, for later use, and was convinced that a U.S. convention provided too much circus and too little bread...
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty...
...advertising and built up a $1,500,000 business. At a Publishers' Ad-club dinner in Manhattan, he rose to register a protest about the ads "connected with the business of embalming authors' brains between stiff covers." To Weir, the ads for what another adman called "breast sellers" look no different from "bra advertising ... It is difficult, at times, to tell . . . whether a book is about land-development or bust-development, about seafaring or suckling ... In my opinion, book advertising trades too much upon the sensational-when it has too little of the sensational to offer. If books...