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...known to all Italy as the "Monster of Nerola." With her mother, two sisters and a brother, Carolina lived with him in a dank stone cottage in a lonely gorge in the hills east of Rome. Father Picchioni was an itinerant olive-picker, chicken thief, and loud-mouthed braggart who was first a Fascist, later a Communist. Always roaring at his wife and children, he once made them dig a long family grave in the backyard so that "it will be ready when I want...
Advance Payment. But Matusow's popularity soon began to wane. At social gatherings he was a braggart and a bore. His only talents were telling involved dirty stories and twisting pipe cleaners into animal-like figures, e.g., he made a little kangaroo and named it Billie-Bunk. When the novelty and profits of his career wore off, Matusow sulked. Moreover, anti-Communist investigators began-although not soon enough-to distrust him. The FBI now says that it dropped him in 1950-yet Matusow was permitted to testify at great length (some 700 pages in the record) in the Government...
...anachronistic than Shaw in a toga, and at times quite as cynical. The play's "Florentine Widow" becomes a wonderful old madam catering to the occupation forces; Helena's choosing a husband is turned into a charming kind of debutante cotillion; and the scene in which the braggart Parolles (superbly played by Douglas Campbell) is exposed as a miserable coward becomes a genuinely funny affair, full of the gaiety, and cruelty, peculiar to the pranks of soldiers and children...
...readable book about what at first glance might seem to be dull people punching it out with life in a dull world. Jimmy got his start in a wholesale greengrocer's office in Covent Garden. Henderson, Grieve & Co. didn't know it, but this smiling, stocky braggart was going to make things pop for all of them. He started with the secretary, Florrie. In no time he had seduced her. Calling at her dismal slum home to tell her he would not marry her, Jimmy met her handsome younger sister Madge, promptly switched his affections and made Madge...
Olivier: "The fact . . . is that you said 'There appeared a cowardly braggart, etc.,' and I am afraid those first two words make things awkward for you. You didn't say 'in spirit' or anything like that. You said 'there appeared.' Of course, you were thinking of the film (Olivier's Henry V), and I can hardly blame you for that, can I? Otherwise, believe me, this would hurt me as much as it does...