Word: brat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figured that he was either a little dotty or a spy. What we learned we learned from another kid." Smith is appalled to know that "kids in the Little League cry when they lose a game." What sensible man would deny that it was a healthier day when the brat ballplayer, unwashed and ununiformed, never cried "unless he caught a foul tip with the end of his finger...
...Cheeky Brat. Belloc got off to a Bellocian start by being born within a fortnight of the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. His father was an ailing French barrister, his mother the daughter of a Birmingham solicitor. Father Belloc kept his family with him right up to the brink of the siege of Paris, then bundled self and brood off to Britain "by the last train for Dieppe.'' Almost the first view that met young Hilaire's eyes was Southampton harbor filled with German ships dressed with flags in honor of the Prussian victory. His father...
...Belloc, a cheeky young brat...
...drawn only to what he calls "nymphets"-near-adolescent girls of mysterious characteristics and an "elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm." The insidious charm of Dolores, whom Humbert dubs Lolita, lurks in the eye of the beholder, for she is a Coke-fed, juke-box-operated brat with a headful of movie mags for a brain. To stay close to her, Humbert marries her widowed mother and is ready to murder mamma when a passing Packard does...
...protests. "People will get sick of this stuff," he insisted. But the kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil der brat"), who is Mama's star boarder and the pranksters' perennial victim...