Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny West heard. He opened the cab door, shot Conn in the lungs and hit a game protector named Frank Friemoth in the shoulder. But as Conn sank, his Tommy gun cut loose. West toppled out to the pavement, dying, his face a bloody pulp...
...often more sensible to let a drunk sleep under a signboard than to haul him to the station house; that it was always wise to whistle for aid before tackling trouble. Once he waded into a gang of roistering sailors, slipped in the snow, was beaten to a pulp...
...clotting crowd tore off his clothes, pounded him with shoeshine boxes snatched from ragged urchins, kicked his face and head into a bloody pulp. Then they knotted a tie around his neck and dragged him six blocks. All afternoon his body lay in the gutter before the Presidential Palace while the rain water made little whirlpools around his bare heels. Gaitán had been picked up and carried to the Clínica Central...
...publishers of True had talked about "striking boldly into an uncharted field . . . sounding out the public appetite for tabloid journalism in magazine form." But the public appetite for True proved small. In six years as a sexy, fact-detective pulp, True got only 240,000 readers-and was barely making carfare. Then it decided to go straight. By last week, the reformed True was up to 1,400,000. It entered the small company of magazines that guarantee to sell a million copies a month...
Pinckney, is not up to the standards of a good pulp magazine story...