Word: hagridden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, this time, is about a hagridden fellow (Fred MacMurray) whose WAC wife (Paulette Goddard) uses every means to dodge giving him a divorce so that he can marry his girl friend (Arleen Whelan). Most of the plot complications center around Paulette's efforts to entice MacMurray back into her bed. The three sides of this triangle are more than reasonably heartless towards each other, but they are outdone in misbehavior by MacMurray's sleek companion (Macdonald Carey), who wants Miss Goddard for himself...
Here & there throughout the speech was a scattering of Churchillian invective: "morbid and reactionary Socialists," "hagridden by Socialist doctrinaries," "bitter, cast-iron Socialist dogmas," "the gloomy vultures of nationalization," "the heavy-footed State...
Last week, making his maiden speech in the House of Lords, the new Lord Templewood was apparently a wiser man. He called Franco Spain "practically a semioccupied country," pervaded by German influence over press and radio, hagridden by the Gestapo. His long-silent Lordship testified: "I had the Gestapo living in the next house looking over a wall watching every movement I made and constantly trying to suborn my domestic staff. . . . I saw what was more sinister-how the Gestapo would seize some man or woman in Spanish territory and take them over the frontier to death or torture...
...noise of agony arose over what the U.S. Senate had done to a Home Rule Bill. Into a subcommittee the bill had gone in pretty, thought Puerto Rican politicos, and had come out hagridden. But the U.S. Senate promptly approved it; sent it to the House last week...
...inquisitive pressmen, Stylist Viereck crooned: "I am not anti-British." In his preface, he grates that Britain's Parliament is "hagridden by a few families welded together by ties of gold and blood," that the Empire is "the greatest graft on earth, the juiciest melon that was ever cut." Since the British aristocracy has long prided itself on providing Britain with leaders the book has no great trouble in elaborating on this theme, adding even a genealogical chart...