Word: banger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decade's most celebrated banger of mystical ashcans has written a fictional account of his childhood, and surprisingly, while the lad he describes is no Penrod, neither is he Little Boy Beat. Jack Duluoz, the author's alter-Kerouac, is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent-a kind of city-bound Tom Sawyer who at one point seems ready to go rafting down New England's flood-swollen Merrimack River on a henhouse roof...
Fisk differed from other robber barons in that he looked the part and played it with scandalous ebullience. Skinny, gloomy Partner Drew was a Bible banger who would retreat to his house, bar the doors and pray; but Jim Fisk was fat and jolly as a carnival pig. Part of his share of the shareholders' money was devoted to his mistress, Actress Josie Mansfield, while other spoils went to buying and renovating Pike's Opera House on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue for the company's head offices; there business mixed with pleasure in the form...
...sentence-"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity ..." The Globe Tale begins as simply and unmemorably as a badlands bang-banger: "On a Friday night late in November, 1775, the stagecoach . . . from London to Dover was toiling slowly up Shooter's Hill...
Fireman Hershkowitz, slowing down a bit at 35, had a particular incentive for winning: no one in handball history has ever won more than 14 nationals. A sharp hitter with both gloved hands, Hershkowitz counted on his fast, hopping serve. Slam-Banger Brady ("I hit the ball awful hard") relied on his overhead kill shots...
...heavyweights, heavy-footed Rex Layne (No. 3) and light-punching Roland LaStarza (No. 4), fought it out for the privilege of meeting Champion Rocky Marciano or Jersey Joe Walcott next summer. LaStarza, who lost a split decision to Marciano three years ago, won a split decision in a slam-banger over Layne...