Word: mashers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dreadful Joy. It has hordes of critics, and they damn it like Victorian belles stabbing a masher with hatpins. Intellectuals, Easterners and British writers, many of whom have lived happily in its sunshine for decades, snarl at its lack of culture, its brashness, its frenzied architecture. Aldous Huxley called it the "city of Dreadful Joy [where] conversation is unknown." H. L. Mencken handed down a one-word verdict: "Moronia...
...captain's bawdy memoirs become a bestseller, and settle the widow's money troubles. More intimate troubles are less easily attended to, for it is no fun to fall in love with a ghost. She tries to face reality by taking up with a simpering masher (George Sanders) who writes children's books, but she should have known better...
Lieut. Henry Hodgkins took a squad into a U-shaped building on one side of the town square. He and his men fought Germans with rifle fire from room to room until the last enemies were chased out. Then two potato-masher grenades flicked in through the window. Two Americans were wounded. By the time another had sprung to the window, the Germans had disappeared into a doorway only ten yards away...
...first act scenery was changed, was a vaudeville known as the Olio (supposedly derived from the Spanish "olla" as in olla podrida, meaning hodgepodge). A regular feature was the stump speech by the Black Demosthenes (or someone of similar title) on such timely topics as "Carrie Nation, the Masher." The Third Part, or "Afterpiece," was often a satire on a current play or opera...
...moment he halted, got to his knees and divested himself of gear that he had been carrying on his back. Then he rushed forward and with a violent motion threw a potato masher grenade into the trench. As the officer rushed away smoke rose from the trench. Then bits of dust began kicking up around the officer from a machine gun on the far flank of the trench which the officer had not been able to see. We watched him crawl back, put on his gear again and then collect his three...