Word: hashing
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...client who suspects that the suicide is really murder, the wife whose hobby is love affairs, the mysterious house guest and, finally, the newly invented explosive. But it is served up with such a flourish of fresh parsley that you'd hardly recognize it as warmed-over hash...
...Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews). In the resulting tangle, everyone is left to act pretty much for himself. The lovebirds come out best. Dana Andrews is a fallen angel with a mouthful of romantic talk and an eye for the main chance. Linda Darnell is Stella, a sulkily beautiful hash slinger who is weary of driving men to madness rather than to matrimony...
...ever been a camp follower whose husband has implored her to follow him from camp to camp and who, to make it financially possible, has knocked herself out working in laundries and hash houses? Has she ever seen the light go out of a woman's eyes when something a little more glamorous comes along and all he can see is "the tired little woman...
...illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance throwing hash by the handful around Childs' at 6 a.m." But now the stories were increasingly marked by what Rosenfeld calls Fitzgerald's sense of "the quality of brutishness, of dull indirection and degraded sensibility running through [the] American life of the hour...
...last, Donitz himself was apparently in British custody. But for days his Radio Flensburg had broadcast a fantastic hash of surrender announcements and anti-Russian propaganda...