Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sets have become as obligatory to the bar & grill business as an ivory stick [for] beer suds." And bars that advertised "big screen" drew the customers. One of the biggest king-sized screens, Tradio's 18 by 22 ft. model (see cut), also had a king-sized price tag...
Steel, the bellwether of U.S. industry (and the patternmaker for industrial wages), acted as if it were ashamed of what it was doing. There was no public announcement of the price advance. Some of the increases were accomplished by a sleight-of-hand change on the price tag. U.S. Steel's Carnegie-Illinois subsidiary merely told customers that semi-finished steel, which had previously sold at $55 a gross ton (2,240 lbs.), would now cost $54 a net ton (2,000 lbs.). Other major steel producers, as they usually do, followed Big Steel's example. Prices went...
...Malicious Childhood. Eisenstein developed a theory to explain these unfortunate deviations toward bourgeois art. They were, said he, tag ends of ideas and impressions left over from pre-revolutionary childhood. Eisenstein's sage advice to Soviet artists: "We must master the Lenin-Stalin method of perception . . . to overcome all remnants or survivals of former notions which . . . are obstinately and maliciously attempting to infiltrate into our works as soon as our creative vigilance is weakened even for only a single moment...
Huxley, beginning to breathe hard, offered the Macbeth tag, Sleep No More. When U-I still wasn't satisfied, he gave up. Then the studio went to work on the problem. How about The Unguarded Heart? Huxley winced. How about Art of Murder? Huxley shuddered. Or Black Velvet? Huxley beat his temples. Well, then: Vengeance? Or Woman of Vengeance? Huxley's wife tried to calm him down. All right, A Woman's Vengeance...
...Guten Tag" said a friend, "aren't you striking today...