Word: mell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Less Height, More Fight. By last week, with about 800 U.S. college teams warming up, it was clear that the quality of play was already far above last year's. More attention was being paid to defense, less to pell-mell pace and the hurried ball-slinging that passed for finesse during wartime. The day of the seven-foot goons seemed to be passing. The brightest basketeers were players of medium height (in basketball lingo: 6 ft. 3 in.) and high skill...
...News, with Hearst's Mirror and Bernarr Macfadden's now defunct Graphic, was the ribald historian of the flapper-speakeasy-whoopee '20s. They competed in a pell-mell rush to give Manhattan gum-chewers the lowdown on Fatty Arbuckle, Peaches Browning, Arnold Rothstein, Kip Rhinelander. The grisliest news-picture of the era-Murderess Ruth Snyder in Sing Sing's electric chair-was run by Patterson's personal order...
With his Dream Girl sets, boyish, 44-year-old Jo Mielziner (pronounced Mell-zeener) completed his 150th Broadway assignment. Since he first caught the public's eye in 1924 with his sets for The Guardsman, he has designed such varied productions as Strange Interlude, Street Scene, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet, the Gielgud Hamlet, Winterset, Watch on the Rhine, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel. Most theatergoers today, asked to name a stage designer, and most producers out to hire one, would think first of Mielziner...
Down curving Ankara Caddesi, Istanbul's Fleet Street, rushed a mob of students. They poured pell mell into the rickety three-story building housing Tan (Dawn), a leftist morning newspaper edited by smart Columbia University-trained Zekeriya SertelVsiey wrecked the old flat-bed presses, the crowd swept over the Golden Horn to attack the plant of La Turquie, which had suddenly turned leftist when the British withdrew their "favors" at war's end and Soviet agents started buying up thousands of copies daily...
...philosophical pauses, such as clogged the pell-mell action of Anthony Adverse, slow down Captain from Castile. It has all the trappings of romantic fiction: moonlight trysts, carousals, desperate galloping, clashing swords, a gallows scene, the education of an innocent girl in the arts of love by her worldly-wise duenna...