Word: slew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also a special importance. It fervently exploits every last one of the most treasured American principles-the brotherhood of races and creeds, human decency, class democracy (it has enough "little men" to man a Liberty ship). Above all, it has a religious theme-and in recent years a slew of novels, good & bad (including The Robe, The Song of Bernadette, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith) have proved to publishers that in an unhappy world religion, no matter how vulgarized, has a market value second only to sex. In The Miracle, religious faith is trumpeted with a shamelessness that...
...morning program, sleepily announcing the time, playing drowsy records, yawning through newscasts and here & there decorating the day's first commercials with slyly adverse comments on their sponsors. All this is unrehearsed blarney. His secretary Margaret ("Mug") Richardson, hands him a slew of advertising copy and news oddments (item: "The United States Government has bought 1,000 dead horses"), and "Red" Godfrey starts spieling...
...beauty triumphant; alive, challenging, insistent; a brilliant attack on the sex of every man." From the instant of her awakening (around noon) to the moment when her gorgeous form slides between the sheets once more (6 a.m., usually), Chloe's boudoir rings with the anguished moans of a slew of infatuated males, ranging from struggling artists to doddering peers, and mostly with names like Claude, Everard, Cecil and Barnaby. Declares Author Milne positively, "There isn't a duke or a millionaire, a genius or a Cabinet Minister, who wouldn't marry her tomorrow...
Knife-wielding Tudeh toughs slew three other sheiks, impaled heads of victims to inflame the mob. By the time an infantry battalion got Abadan under control, a score were dead, 150 wounded...
...News and Hearst's Herald-American hit the street together with front-page layouts showing Heirens as a Dr. Jekyll (hair combed) and Mr. Hyde (hair mussed). He had not yet been charged with murder, but the Tribune airily convicted him: HOW HEIRENS SLEW...