Word: bawdiest
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...Bawdiest city: Butte ("with the possible exception of Amarillo, Texas"). "Whole neighborhoods [in Butte] are moldy, whole streets are rotten and decaying. The bars are preposterous and prodigious. I saw grandmothers teaching six-year-old kids to play slot machines...
...gilded epidermis of a young human sacrifice named Mr. Ram-nobody knows. But Robert Graves is quite sure that, whatever the Golden Fleece was, the voyage of Jason and his Argonauts really happened. His story of "how it really happened" shows the legendary cruise as one of the bawdiest, bloodiest, most boisterous expeditions of all time...
...Thomas Joseph Pendergast, 71, most notorious political boss of the century; of heart disease; in Kansas City. Son of a teamster, old "TJ." built a small Democratic ward machine in Kansas City's Italian section into a powerful and corrupt political juggernaut. He ruled Kansas City in its bawdiest, gaudiest era, hired ghost voters by the thousands, bet millions on the ponies, hand-picked Governors and Senators, started Vice President Harry Truman up the political ladder. Heavy-set and heavy-jowled, he was the incarnation of the cartoonists' political boss-especially when he wore...
...book will stagger most readers. It is not only bulky but sexy, and both to excess. A 971-page exploitation of the bawdiest phases of the bawdy Restoration, it weighs two pounds even. And every ounce sizzles-with seductions, abortions, childbirths, miscarriages, bedroom raptures. Its characters wallow in pox, perversion, impotence, pregnancy. Historical events like the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London are swept away in its undertow...
Acting honors for the evening were snatched by Thomas G. Ratcliffe, Jr. '35 as Falstaff, who shook and belched and toddled and fought and ran and swore his way through that bawdiest of parts King Henry, in the person of Roger W. Drury '36, was a stately and dignified monarch, bent on the suppression of rebellion, and on the reformation of his madcap son, Harry...