Word: mash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Melville's dark, brooding tale has been boiled down to a tasteless mash, and Ahab's ranting Shakespearean soliloquies are gone altogether. The scraps of dialogue that remain are largely Melville's, but they rattle unconvincingly in the mouths of hollowed-out characters. Writes the editor: "The sentence structure and punctuation have been simplified. In some instances, for the sake of clarity, rearrangement of the Moby Dick sequence of events was made. Words of infrequent use and unfamiliar terms were screened; questionable words were checked in Thorndike's The Teacher's Word Book...
...Abby got some 25 letters from frantic women, each confessing that she was the writer of the mash notes. They came from Houston, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, even Honolulu. The original letter was written by a woman who lived in the San Francisco area...
...Mash Note. In Vonore, Tenn., Moonshiner Bill White, arrested by federal agents after he built a still in his front yard, explained: "There's no use putting the still back in the mountains, because you'd find it anyway...
...commercial journals that are published in most U.S. cities, Denver's business weekly bears as much resemblance as sour-mash bourbon to Sanka. Known as Cervi's Rocky Mountain Journal, after Editor and Publisher Eugene Sisto Cervi, the thriving $12-a-year Denver paper is a sassy, fact-crammed compendium of personals, local business transactions (including almost every new car sale in town) and well-honed gibes at such unlikely targets as the Chamber of Commerce, complacent businessmen, Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News and the powerful Denver Post. Gene Cervi, 50, onetime Colorado State Democratic Chairman...
...left-wing People under the headline: TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE REAL AMERICA ! With this lead the Sunday People (circ. 4,948,215), which wallows weekly in a rich home-brew of slaughter, society scandal and police-court sex, last week decanted a bottle of sour-mash bamboozlement imported from the old colony across the Atlantic...