Word: hashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Biggest J. B.s" [TIME, Feb. 1]. Although this whole procedure is absolutely idiotic, may I remark that as "John" is the commonest American name there are undoubtedly more famous Americans named "John" than anything else. No doubt "Big Johns" also head the lists of bootleggers, stamp lickers, hash eaters, sword swallowers, garbage men and street sheiks. If your readers have nothing better to do I can start them out on a list of "Big Johns" which they can go on adding to until they are tired of such a ninnyhammer's trick. My list: John Thomas Scopes John...
...instead of the 115,000 proposed in the budget; it made no allowances for the building of new barracks. With such additions, the 1366,000,000 bill went to the House to be debated. Skeptics wondered whether the extra five cents a day would mean beefsteaks or merely better hash...
...heavily. Life, however, is simple: flying today, women tonight, tomorrow cannot be helped. It is not quite accurate to call the author unknown. Some of the men he names by name survived-piano-playing Larry Callahan of Chicago, for example; Violinist Albert Spalding; one-armed Alan Winslow; husky Dr. "Hash" Gile of Princeton and New York. They will applaud the terse descriptions of air action, heavily salted with realism and cynicism. They will admire Clayton Knight's sketches of havoc-ridden skies. They will remember the writer as they remember other men in his pages-big "Ros" Fuller, Clarence...
...Significance. It is underneath the structure of his stories, behind the titles and estates of his characters, that Author Bennett's genius is to be found. It is a genius shy of formality, making hash of what is conventionally expected of it in the way of dramatic climax, contributing richly at moments when reader and characters are least expectant. Who will may hunt for traces of Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe in Andy Clyth and Sam Raingo but the wealth of this book lies in the subtle asides of the two fictitious figures and in the host of minor...
...Blonde Sinner-Unflavored theatrical hash...