Word: gores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Churchgoers would have good reason to be startled and offended if ministers took to reading erotic poetry from the pulpit. Just as jarring to the sensitive, trained ear of Professor Richard T. Gore is much of the music now played and sung in Protestant churches. "Go where you will," he advises in this week's Christian Century, "to the village church or the great metropolitan cathedral . . . most of the music used in our worship services is little better than blasphemy...
...small bits of genuine character portrayal. To cap off this two-hour-plus marathon there is perhaps the bloodiest climax in a long, long time-heroine and hero shoot each other full of holes, only to suddenly find that they are madly in love. Bathed in Technicolor gore, they crawl across a pile of rocks to die in each others arms...
...Archibald Kelhead Douglas, roth Marquess of Queensberry, 51, grandson of the man who supervised the formulation of the modern prize ring's rules (a boxing expert himself, the Marquess came to the U.S. last May to report the Louis-Conn bout for the London Daily Graphic); and Mimi Gore Chunn, 36, secretary of his wartime Queensberry All-Service Boxing Club; he for the third time, she for the second; in London, without the ring, which he had left at home...
Completely ignoring the forty-year-old axiom that a horse opera is judged solely by the amount of gore sprayed around the set, Republic Pictures have refused to fob off a thousand rounds of ammunition as entertainment and have turned out a refreshingly novel movie. Although the "Angel and the Badman" contains enough of the usual ingredients to satisfy any grammar school desperado, the clever and entirely feasible plot will be a welcome relief to gun-shy adults...
...with a potatoe." By 1816 the expanding collection of books and apparatus squeezed out the Commons to the newly-erected University Hall, and the whole second floor became the library, the old chapel downstairs became a recitation room, and the former Commons became a "mineralogical cabinet." But when the Gore Hall library was built, twenty-five years later, these two lower rooms were combined into a single large hall for Commencement dinners, and on the second floor a Physics Laboratory was established...