Word: mayhem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappoint his readers, Author Cain does some thimblerigging with family birthmarks, and soon fixes things so that Kady is not Jess's daughter after all, and they may step out together hand in hand to enjoy more commonplace sins of Cain, such as adultery, bigamy, perjury, moonshining, arson, mayhem and murder. "She was anybody's woman," mutters Jess gloomily-after he has neatly exploded Kady's real father with a large charge of dynamite, and she has run away with a more tolerant sort of man-"and all I've got to say is, I love...
Sugar Ray got up slowly, and with a lot more respect for Tommy Bell's left hook. For six rounds, he followed Louis' advice, relying on jab-&-retreat rather than toe-to-toe mayhem. When he finally cut loose in the eleventh, Robinson had Bell glassy-eyed and ready for a K.O.-but lacked the strength to drive home the finishing punch. After hearing himself announced as new welterweight champ, Sugar Ray stood in his corner, dog-tired and happy, but not quite the world-beater he was cracked...
...that it is about the same hair-raising war-between-the-sexes that chilled U.S. marrows in The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce. A well-told tale whose deadpan savagery suggests that it was written with the tip of an icicle, it features enough lust and mayhem per page to shame a pulp novel...
...year when mayhem, murder, dipsomania, drug addiction, perversion and incest are much commoner in U.S. novels than in U.S. life, Ilka (In Bed We Cry) Chase has contributed a novel whose muted prurience is almost prim. The story concerns the adventures of two U.S. Quakeresses* named Bean. They are natives of Lanesboro, Pa., where the Widow Bean's father keeps a general store. There, after a week of whirlwind courtship, an itinerant spaghetti salesman named Rechetti marries the widow and whisks her and her daughter, Tilli, off to Italy. He has neglected to tell his U.S. wife that...
...this story of thugs and trulls, enough sin and mayhem occurs (or is about to) on every page to remind U.S. readers of James M. Cain. The complete, animal innocence of its hero-a sort of Id with pants down-is funny, scary, and fascinating. But the sailor is not going to like the two missing chapters. After raising the promise of Cain for the first 207 pages, Author Butler subsides into a tea-and-marmalade finish...