Word: allrights
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...have the characteristic defect in that Sillitoe's automata of the sub-world are moved to explain themselves in terms of those heavily bearded bores Marx and Freud. An unctuous homiletic tone slops over into the hard-case dialogue as Sillitoe labors to make clear that the allright blokes are pro-Corn and the real rozzers are Tory types...
These establishments made a practice of giving high-pressure reviews of courses before examinations, which were well-attended, and it was held that the sessions encouraged students to neglect their work since it could be digested for them and jammed into their heads in allright reviews...
...didn't render a decision of guilty." The lawyer for the defence jumped up and said 'Those men aren't jurors; they're witnesses'. He then aled exceptions on the grounds of intoxication in the jury and lack of evidence, the jury having finished it off. A swell mess allright...
From the Ghetto to Allright-niks...
Shortly thereafter Judge Hirsch marries his mistress, Gretel, who has been living with the Hirsch family. "Mother does not speak to Gretel." Meyer's political career is ended by the scandal. But he clings to the judgeship and he lives in "Allright-niks Row, Riverside Drive. . . . The Ghetto called anyone who was well off-one who is all right in this world, that is, well fixed- allrightniks." Meyer is well fixed-a great beast of a man. "Haunch, paunch and jowl" his enemies had called him. It pierced his hide a little, that name. He remembered it in critical...