Word: hashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valued at more than $1,500,000.) But the Gazette's fortunes have dwindled, as has its circulation-now said to be about 50,000. The Police Gazette today has nothing even faintly suggestive of such headlines as "SNARED BY A SCOUNDREL. AN INNOCENT COUNTRY BEAUTY . . ." "HUMAN HASH" (topping the story of a railroad wreck); "ROAST MAN" (above a hotel fire story). Indeed, it now resorts to its own back files for material. But the advertisements have retained their old aroma: marked cards, "trick" dice, "vigor" tablets for men. Typical classified advertisement of last week: "For a lovely chummy...
...hold forth in apartments with kitchenettes on Chauncy Street, the erection of Law dormitories would be no especial benefit, but to the more impecunious students, who come to Cambridge from distant parts and are forced to live in unattractive rooms and dine in gloomy boarding houses or the ordinary hash slinging cafeteria, such houses would be a godsend. Building sites and money are the difficulties to be overcome. One can only pray for the appearance of some benefactor like Harkness, Baker, and Vanderbilt to provide buildings for the Law School worthy of its importance in the University...
...Hash, despised in most eating halls, attained surprising popularity the one time that it was served this Fall. Ice cream, particularly when accompanied by macaroons, is the most reliable best seller, while apple pudding wins the verdict over...
...boredom the only menace fostered by the critic; his efforts often constitute a temptation as well. It is far easier, and much more expedient to read and re-hash the comments which appear in the encyclopedia on the subject of Ben Jonson, for instance, than it is to honor the bard and his works with an original treatise. And to complicate matters still further, the former procedure is invariably productive of a better grade. This unfortunate state of affairs doubtless cannot be corrected by consigning to oblivion all critical essays and essayists, past and present; but before absorbing, sponge-like...
...Club are in full accord, that the Club's legitimate field of choice is among good plays which have not the box-office attraction requisite for professional production. "But in default of such, a Liliom would not be amiss." The very next sentence strongly recommends "avoiding the re-hashing of box-office successes." Does the CRIMSON mean by this that Liliom was not a box-office success? Or would the Club's production of it not be a re-hash...