Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hawthorne's hands, commercials get rough justice. When a plug is due, he bangs on his "attention getter" (a pair of crash cymbals) as a red alert to the audience. Most of the transcribed commercials are played at either very slow or breakneck speeds, so that they sound like either a foghorn or Donald Duck. On one occasion he treated his listeners to ten minutes of Bach, with interpolated comments and seal yelps. Conductor Mark Warndw, after hearing a Hawthorne show, said judiciously: "He's half haw, half thorn...
...sold a million copies, had never been to the U.S. He had, however, read a lot of U.S. pulps, and his dialogue tried to catch the tone faithfully. Samples from the movie: "Look, Fenner, don't put the squeak into Slim." "Ya, I'd like to plug him in the guts." Most of the sequences involved fairly normal business like gun battles, kidnapings, dopings, and Miss Blandish's suicide. But there was one scene (where Miss Blandish's fiance is being kicked to death just out of camera sight) that brought gasps from London audiences...
...Douglas supporters will be out in force to plug for their favorite when they gather to urge the Supreme Court Justice's nomination as Democratic presidential candidate...
Harvard Freshmen may plug for A's, but 69 percent of them have time to read the funnies regularly, according to results of a Class of '51 poll just completed...
Harper is worried that his Jayvee battery may have to plug the holes in a weakening Varsity lineup this afternoon. Langdon Clay, most imminent prospect for varsity relief pitching, Johnny Davis, and Roger Hanson, both hampered by sore arms and backs, form the core of his pitching attack. Webby Durant will catch...