Word: riotousness
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...Spanish Main (RKO Radio) is the kind of pleasant nonsense that has become practically a lost art: a gaudy, fancy-dress romance with a handsome, Robin-Hooded hero, a lovely, menaced heroine and dark, churlish villains. Director Frank Borzage has appropriately filmed it all in a blaze of riotous, slam-bang Technicolor...
...hitherto suppressed portion of the Army Pearl Harbor Board report, Regular Army officer Wyman and his great & good friend Hans Wilhelm Rohl, a German-alien contractor, were accused of ". . . a scale of riotous living, drunkenness and both private and public misconduct . . . together." Rohl, on whose yacht Wyman frequently made what he called "inspection trips," was awarded many Army contracts in Hawaii in 1940-41, even though he was not always the lowest bidder...
Despite some few preparations, peace had caught the U.S. unprepared. On the morning after Japanese capitulation and the riotous celebrations that followed, many a citizen realized how inadequate his imagination had been in picturing the days to come. Peace was here, and for the time being little else mattered. Eventually, it would again be possible to lead a normal life, after picking up and mending the strands that had been broken some five years before. But,, in the meantime...
...past 15 years have shown a verbal inventiveness that, says Mencken, is "the most riotous seen in the world since the break-up of Latin." Some of the results are rooted in the New Deal and the Depression -e.g., forgotten man, economic royalist, horse-and-buggy days, boondoggling-as are the more ephemeral third-termite and That Man, and the alphabet soup of government bureaus (NRA, TVA). But the bulk of heavy coinage has come from a slew of irresponsible, word-happy inventors, including such Menckenian heroes as Variety's late Jack Conway (who coined baloney, S.A., high...
Thus last week did riotous, rowdy Lupe Velez, dead by her own hand (TIME, Dec.25), find a resting place in Mexico City's Graveyard of Sorrows beside another recent suicide, Singer Lucha Reyes...