Word: caving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy Mitchell wrote: "We must relegate armies and navies to a glass case in a dusty museum, which contains samples of the dinosaur, the mammoth and the cave bear...
...lady's request, one day, Bernadette swallowed some of the damp cave mud (and vomited); the mud became an abundant spring. That spring, according to scientific analysis, is pure drinking water; but in it, a few days later, a paralytic baby in the spasms of death was immersed, recovered, and lived to see Bernadette sainted 75 years later in the greatest 20th-century feast of the Roman Church...
Comparing the present fight with the primitive warfare of cave men, he asked the man who carries on as usual behind the lines, "How can you justify yourself as the maker of bows and arrows to the mother of one who is shooting them...
Everything, it seems at first, is in this book; such ghoulish, semi-slang tintypes as "God's image cut in ebony" (for Negro); such beautifully graphic trade terms as the miner's "snow" (for the sifting of earth presaging a cave-in), the ballplayer's "floater" (for a slow ball), the prostitute's "pivot" (for solicitation from a window). Practically all the unmailable words turn up, along with a tremendous set of their variants and embellishments. So does the surrealist language of drug addicts, the high-heeled dialect of perverts, the likable archaisms of lumberjacks (they...
...growing kind of fat herself. The story involves a colony of Negroes living on a subtropical island who, we couldn't figure out exactly why, can't subsist without a descendant of the white founders watching over them from the ancestral mansion. For two hours, Madeleine chases Stirling from cave to bamboo-tree, limping rather creditably through a script so bad that it makes even the talented Flora Robson appear ridiculous...