Word: banged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf: "Dear, dear! How queer everything is today. But if I am not myself, who am I? Well, I'm sure I'm not Bismarck, for his hair was bristly and mine falls in a beautiful bang right over my left eye. And I can't be Napoleon, because he retreated from Moscow. . . . Oh, dear! I wish I could get my thoughts straight. Maybe it would help if I could hear the party catechism...
...Some bang-up news shots of some of the nation's best upset football games are a real addition to the program, but the second feature, "Hero For a Day," would only be "Here For a Day" in anyone else's language...
Meanwhile, in the U. S. S. R. Bolshevists staged a bang-up three-day celebration of the 22nd anniversary of the Communist revolution. The Communist Third International blasted forth with a strident manifesto which called upon workers of the world to unite and "go against those who favor continuation of imperialistic war." Nothing wrong was found with Nazi Germany, but the manifesto singled out for special tongue-lashings the U. S., which "repeals the embargo on the export of arms to secure huge profits to the kings of the munitions industry"; Britain and France, for "keeping half the world...
...Baton Rouge, La., undefeated, untied, unscored-on Tennessee, still the No. 1 popular choice to represent the East in the Rose Bowl, smashed a slam-bang Louisiana State team that had previously trounced Holy Cross, Rice, Loyola and Vanderbilt. Tennessee...
...passing from Broadway to Hollywood, On Your Toes has suffered a see change. Even Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, a high point of the original version, has no more bang than the pop-pistol percussion with which the orchestra burlesques its pantomime killings. Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Leonid Kinskey fling flat gags around with as much nervous energy as if they were hand grenades, but they never go off. Typical duds: "We are waiting for Levsky"; "Aha! mutiny on the ballet...