Word: mayhemic
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...piece de resistance--pugilism--almost came to pass when Bill Callagy, the Indians' losing pitcher, was restrained from committing mayhem on John Caulfield in the seventh inning of the finale...
...course of finding out, Ladd and the dead man's sweetheart (Gail Russell) make uneasy but interested eyes at each other. There is some effective singing in a nightclub (by June Duprez), such side dishes of menace as a suspect gentleman in a turban, and some reasonably exciting mayhem in a pitch dark hangar. Gradually the investigators realize that they have unwittingly been flying the Hump for a gang of jewel thieves who will stop at nothing-not even the picture's denouement...
Masters of Mayhem. Bab Gilbert grew up in that peculiarly Victorian period which saw the rise of the limerick, the nonsense-rhyme, the deadpan fantasy, the whimsical fairytale, the gay and dexterous verse-strummings on themes of mayhem, decapitation, kidnaping, cannibalism-an era that began with Thackeray, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert himself, and was carried on into the 20th Century by James Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc and Evelyn Waugh...
Hampered only slightly by the translucent blinders applied by the Watch and Ward Society, Boston now gets its mayhem straight with its cornflakes and cares little about the quality of the news. An uncommonly happy hunting ground for carpet-bagger journalism, the city is now vamped by no less than five newspapers devoting their space to scandals, with the practical exclusion of any other type of news. These papers have a total circulation of 1,900,000 in a city of 2,300,000, leaving little room for news coverage of national and international events. The result of this topic...
...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...