Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clement Raynaud, 48, a serious fellow, had always been interested in the occult, even when he was a cop. He got a diploma in graphology from one of those schools that advertise in pulp magazines. In a small laboratory in Toulouse in 1946 he began making a secret perfume of eau de cologne, Cyprian essence, ferns, the excretions of vipers and scorpions. Raynaud advertised: "This perfume is especially prepared to help you, even through the mails, to seduce, charm, or to awaken in you and in others troubling desires. To fortify your amorous magnetism, just a drop on a love...
Here big Boy Scouts from all colleges compete, but the affair is strictly male, Canoe races, fly and bait casting contests, fire building tilts, wood chopping and back-packing races, and pulp wood throwing contests are featured...
...thousands of Americans panicked at Orson Welles' unprecedented broadcast of "The Invasion from Mars." Since then science fiction on a big scale has infiltrated pulp magazines, medicine, and more recently the movies. Most of the results have been pretty bad. Pictures like "The Thing," and "Rocket Ship X-M" are displacing Westerns as the favorite form of movie entertainment. But "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is a notable exception to the general run of outer-space productions...
Sandrino has one eye on revenge and the other on the girl across the street when Virginia suddenly announces that she is pregnant. In a grisly finale, Sandrino impales her head on a pike fence till it becomes a slippery, lifeless pulp...
...morning paper under his coat at the approach of the photographer. In the next aisle one can see the legs of a sleeping Tiger. The black arrow at the top points out the newspaper read by another student, while the man at the right is deeply engrossed in a pulp magazine or comic book...