Word: aproned
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Before graduation, Wouk had announced that he was going to be a writer. His sister Irene still remembers the family powwows that ensued: "Father said if Herman wanted to write, why not write advertising copy for the Fox Square Laundry? Mother twisted her apron in anguish and insisted that he go to law school." (Years later proud Mama Wouk was seen carrying The Caine Mutiny almost everywhere she went...
...could possibly have written the "acid ode" on U.S. wives . . . I'm afraid Editor Fischer wanted a lot of free publicity for himself and his magazine, but hit on a poor means of getting it. Why doesn't he cut himself loose from his wife's apron strings and find out firsthand what American men and women are really like, and then write his piece...
Under Kramer's apron they found a rubber hot-water bottle filled with preheated cream. A long, thin tube led from the bottle through the hay at Marie's feet and into the milking pail. By pressing the bottle with his forearms as he leaned forward to strip Marie, the milker could send squirts of cream into his milking pail. With this evidence in hand, the gendarmes bustled Kramer off to jail on the charge of fraud, and the dairymen of Normandy, with the solemnity demanded of the occasion, took steps to drop the name and claim...
...brink of reason. He is pushed toward the edge by the inquisitions of the psychiatrists, and by the maddening knowledge that Ann will let him rot in asylums unless he returns to her arms alone. At last, all yearnings for independence crushed, any chances of even loosening the apron strings gone, he spews a false confession that is a frightening travesty of a Soviet purge trial. Pleased that their patient again realizes his need for a protective wife, the psychiatrists let Jim go from the city's custody...
This novel has elephantiasis of the prose glands, but basically it is an anemic little yarn about an English theatrical royal family. Jacy Florister, 27, an ex-child star dangling rebelliously from maternal apron strings, has long wanted to know more about his deceased British father, whom his mother always refers to as "a moron." When poolside sex and liquor kill mother. Jacy quits Hollywood and flies to England to scratch around for his "roots." He not only digs up the Florister clan, a prolific, Barrymoreish brood whose blood lines rival the "begats," but also the girl of his dreams...