Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, a twelve-year-old Hiroshima schoolboy with a ragged scar over his left eye peered at a TIME correspondent through glasses he has worn ever since the bombing. Said Hiroshima's child: "You American? American soldier good. Americans number one." His mother and sister, he said, had been killed by the bomb...
Some of Rio's most recent crimes have reached the top strata of lurid violence. Samples: 1) borrowing a time-worn page from the Aztecs, a boy cut out his beloved's heart; 2) using a sharp hatchet, a man chopped his wife into small pieces as she lay in bed with their two-year-old daughter. Last week the Latin American Congress of Criminologists picked Rio as the site of their 1946 convention...
Last week this old Tennessee ballad, Cindy, was worn thin on the turntables of 1,000 radio disc jockeys. Listeners wrote new Cindy lyrics and sent them to the radio stations. First prize in the contest was a trip to Manhattan to meet Songbird Jo Stafford...
...Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated henhouse. . . . There is a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves. . . . Modern writing at its worst . . . consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else...
Hayes thinks his comedy ideas are best expressed in his characterization of "Punchy Callahan"-a hilarious but touching portrait of an ex-pug, as shapeless, scuffed and unwanted as a worn-out boxing glove. Even after three weeks, busy Copacabana waiters still stop, look & listen to Punchy...