Word: rampant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dick Powell, Franchot Tone and the other players lather it on, True To Life is likable, sometimes genuinely laughable. Surest laugh-getter is Victor Moore. His catastrophic demonstration of "breakfast made easy," is a cute enough kidding of rampant gadgetry to recall the alltime master, Buster Keaton.' Nearly as satisfying is the Sudsy-Suds jingle, as mooed by a male quartet. Its clinch line nails the prospect with: "It's de-lish...
City Health Officer George M. Uhl's explanation of the grandmother menace: "These grandmothers lived through a period in which typhoid fever was rampant in the U.S. It is known that 2% of typhoid cases became permanent carriers. Grandmothers are frequently active in the preparation of food in the home [known typhoid carriers must sign an agreement not to prepare food for outsiders...
...millions of U.S. hearts, is the belief that the Puritans were, and remain, responsible for U.S. bigotry in all its more characteristic forms. The facts, says Historian Myers, prove otherwise. In all the American colonies the general spirit was that prevalent in England. That spirit was one of rampant persecution. Quakers were hanged in Massachusetts, but they were persecuted in Virginia as well. Not only in Massachusetts but in Maryland, long famed for its religious tolerance, the penalty for inveterate blasphemy was death; and blasphemy was any doubt that the Bible was the Word or that Jesus...
Before the conference opened, Chairman Spangler made a drastic change in the scenery : a single pottery elephant, with drooping trunk, was removed from the stage, replaced by two elephants with heads and trunks suitably rampant. As the gavel fell, no one could doubt who was in charge. Chairman Spangler occupied the rostrum; Senators Vandenberg and Robert A. Taft sat front center. Swiftly Harrison Spangler entrusted the writing of the foreign and domestic statements to committees headed respectively by Senators Vandenberg and Taft, told them to go behind closed doors. The first session then ended...
Last week Sergeant George Avakian revealed to the stupied Cantabs that a subtle fifth-column invasion of Yale men had invaded Harvard Square. Now it is time to reveal another undermining influence in the very fortress of John Harvard; it is none other than the Princeton Tiger roaming rampant through the unguarded Common...