Word: spate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of conversions, told his students that they were just "roughnecks." His enthusiasm for the P.R.B. boys, however, caught one young student, Grenville Lindall Winthrop, who was a wealthy retired lawyer when he died in 1943. Winthrop left his art collection (6,000 art objects, including the spate of Pre-Raphaelite dreamwork on display last week) to the Fogg...
...Drake, dancing Tar Marc Platt and Cinemactress Janet Blair, who is pretty and Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood. He may possibly have caught the act of another fast doubletalker named Danny Kaye, but his scrambled-eggs number is fine, his smiling pilot still better. Hail, Caesar...
...book for the Christmas trade which was likely to strain its readers' patriotism. It included some of the best -but many of the worst-of the most widely published pictures recently produced in the U.S. Portrait of America reproduced four Satevepost and two New Yorker covers, a spate of paintings for ads, and a few art-gallery pictures. It led off with a four-page primer on U.S. art history by Book Critic Bernard DeVoto who, being a literary man, thinks of art as illustration...
...been yelling its head off that he was giving Japan a "soft peace," that he was playing politics with Hirohito, that he was playing politics wih the U.S. voters, etc., etc. In a revealing question-&-answer session with U.P.'s smart President Hugh Baillie, the General answered a spate of home criticism and gave the best account yet of his plans and purposes in occupied Japan...
World War II has brought a spate of innovations, ranging from the G.I.-adopted Shangri-La (designating a comfort-station in the South Seas) to the experienced tires hopefully advertised by second-hand automobile dealers. Only in the field of creative swearing, concludes Author Mencken, has American verbal fecundity sunk as low as Britain...