Word: mayhemic
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...traditionally been, an Ivy School. Of late, however (let's say 1939), Penn has dubiously begun to win football games. Football and Penn have become synonymous with "large city school and amateur professionalism" in that sport. Today they are embarking on a great new career of intersectional mayhem, opening with California at Philadelphia. Two great states are meeting, carrying with them not only intersectional football implications, but the political ambitions of a nationally minded University president...
...Belvedere Rings the Bell (20th Century-Fox) keeps the Clifton Webb series alive, but only at the cost of sabotaging its leading character and committing mayhem on the 1948 Broadway success, The Silver Whistle. This time, the acid, all-knowing Webb is uncomfortably fitted out with a heart of gold, while Robert McEnroe's comedy, on which the movie is based, loses most of its puckish spirit...
...mayhem and tough talk which are basic to any Powell movie are present in this one, but he is on the dishing-out end for a change. Although the bookie is naturally foiled or double-crossed at every turn, he has a good time sapping people behind the car and grilling a witness with the base of a modernistic lamp...
Passions of Slobberlips McJab. Capp also sees to it that his readers are fed liberal quantities of sex, Dogpatch style-a style which incorporates the absurder aspects of mayhem and dementia. On occasion the woomanship of Appassionata Van Climax, the Wolf Gal, Adam Lazonga and Slobberlips McJab has resembled the more vehement techniques of Lizzie Borden and Strangler Lewis...
Words were not only inadequate; they were superfluous. The reader of such gory classics a century ago knew exactly how well-bred young heroines felt in the presence of general mayhem-so long as it was perpetrated by the hero. The reader felt the same way himself and he loved it. He loved it so much that a new literary form, the dime novel, was created in his mental image, and a great publishing industry was built to produce it. At the head of the industry during the early years stood the house of Beadle and Adams. The history...