Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raised Voices. There was no doubt that competition for the readers' small change and advertisers' dollars was getting stiffen One symptom was a rash of big ads in Manhattan dailies, not so much to sell millions of newspaper readers as to impress a thousand or so admen now making up 1949 budgets...
Uneasy Heads. In Mars Hill, N.C., Mary Stringfield, queen of the Carolina Poultry Industries Exposition, ate a plate of scrambled eggs at her coronation and broke out in a rash. In Chicago, Cornelia Ward, queen of the National Safety Council Congress, was shaken up in an automobile accident...
President José Luis Bustamante, harassed by recurring political crises, promptly suspended all civil rights. The revolt, he declared, had been the work of his onetime friends and present enemies, the militantly leftist (but anti-Marxist) Apristas, whom he had already blamed for last fortnight's rash of strikes, and much of the country's political unrest...
...temperate description of a financier named Horace Vendig (Zachary Scott). As the picture opens, he is tossing a huge fortune into the lap of a world peace organization; but his old acquaintance Vic (Louis Hayward) knows a thing or two about him, and the movie breaks out into a rash of flashbacks...
Cinemactor Robert Mitchum was indicted by a Los Angeles grand jury on two counts (possession of marijuana and conspiracy to violate the narcotic laws). Meanwhile, his studio (RKO) hastened to make hay. Pleasantly amazed at the rash of public sympathy and sentimentality over Mitchum's trouble, the studio planned an immediate release of Bob's latest movie (Rachel and the Stranger, co-starring Loretta Young, and presenting Mitchum as a frontier home-wrecker...