Word: boor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since when do we concern ourselves with a lout, a boor and a phony like Brando? For God's sake spare...
...contemporaries. After hours, he saw them not quite at their best: E.E. Cummings lying in a bathtub maliciously imitating John Dos Passes' speech impediment; Dorothy Parker surrounded by "the vulgarity of her too much perfume." Even Wilson's Princeton friend Scott Fitzgerald was a "sloppy boor" who got drunk and knocked people unconscious in the lavatory...
King of the mountain was Horace ("Hod") Tabor, a shambling boor and former storekeeper who had grubstaked two starving prospectors to $64.75 worth of provisions. Only ten months later, Hod wound up with the Matchless and other prodigious silver mines that were to earn him as much as $4 million a year - in taxless 1880 dollars. After his first meeting with Baby, who had judiciously selected him as her private grubstake, Hardrock Horace bought off her current protector and made Baby Doe his mistress. No matter that he was 53 and she 23, or that he was married...
...claret, Bevan railed eloquently against the Fm-all-right-Jack, never-had-it-so-good political climate in which Britain's working class celebrated its deliverance from deprivation and indignity. Throughout his career he was consistently portrayed by the press, in Foot's phrase, as "half boor, half buffoon," the Bolshevik Caliban from Ebbw Vale. The Labor Party in the end conferred the leadership on blander, more predictable...
CHURCH OF THE COVENANT. (Corner Newbury and Berkeley Sts.) The Boor by Checkhov, The Lover by Pinter, Thurs. thru...