Word: brat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...myth about the slum brat who makes it big in the underworld is curlicued with familiar movie romance. Clearly, Joseph Vincent Moriarty, who grew up in a rundown section of Jersey City, N.J., never had romance in his soul-or never saw the right movies. Known as "Newsboy" because in his youth he sold tabloids in the bars and restaurants of his neighborhood, Moriarty got into the policy numbers racket* when he was only 13, went on and upward to become Jersey City's No. 1 numbers boss. He was arrested no fewer than 25 times on gambling charges...
...action turns on the amorous experiences of each member of the family except the brat. Father smashes the jaw of a celebrated shoulder kisser who specializes in middle-aged mothers. His daughter falls in love with a miserable young architect who cannot believe in marriage until the young girl's golden example and courageous fortitude in refusing his more immediate advances win him over to a vision of permanent happiness...
...brooding look of Eugene O'Neill. Little Eugene Chaplin, 8, is known as Tadpole and is always talking, always in trouble. Charlie is a strict disciplinarian, and all seven children have felt the palm of his hand. They are amiable and well-behaved - not one sophisticated international brat in the group...
...attended Burgess Hill for one year before I came to New Zealand. The schooling I received there had a profound influence on me. I was a damn little brat by the time I'd finished, and at least a year behind in my formal schooling...
...week star. Last April he married Carole D'Andrea, an actress-dancer who had a supporting role in West Side Story, and their first child is due in December. With the success of How to Succeed, Morse has finally developed confidence in himself, and the brat in him may be departing forever. He stops the show with a song, delivered into a mirror, that is such a moving paean to self-love it probably makes Narcissus roll over in his grave and take another look into the pool. It is called I Believe in You. At last, Bobby Morse...