Word: gores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that was a good grenade throw above most slick-magazine fiction. The editors regard "evaluating currently dominant literary reputations" as part of their charter. Accordingly, Vol.1, No.1 gave the back of its hand to the "dreary wastes" of homosexuality in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms, and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar. Some other little magazines, just popped up or popping...
...great markets of La Villette, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, reeked as usual with the gore of freshly slaughtered livestock. Nearly a thousand butchers, ruddy-faced and cheerful, lounged about waiting for the clang of the heavy iron bell to call them into the slaughterhouses, to bid for the fresh carcasses of 800 oxen and cows, 1,000 calves, and 1,500 sheep...
Perhaps better than any other College building, old Gore Hall symbolized the Harvard of 1873. It was a picturesque structure, with high, thin towers that looked down on the bare west side of the Yard. But despite its quiet charm, Gore was totally inadequate as a library. It was poorly lighted and so damp that moisture collected on the books while one was reading them...
...Harvard gore would flow...
...late report last night revealed that four undergraduates were preparing to sleep out of doors in the Gore Hall quadrangle because of the unseasonable heat. They were: Hane H. Estin '49, Stephen F. Davis '49, Richard H. Cummings '48, and Dwight Lawrence '51, all of Winthrop House...