Word: busybodyness
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Pierre was born in San Francisco on June 14, 1925. His father, a New York-born mining engineer and a devoted amateur musician, died in a 1941 auto crash. His mother, daughter of a minor French politician-journalist, was and remains, in her sixties, an effervescent, amiable busybody with a...
The Busybody. Ruby was another unlovable character. He had knocked around with some tough boys in his home town, Chicago, now prided himself on running one of the most popular striptease joints in Dallas. He carried a gun, was a cop buff, and loved to visit police headquarters. Medical reports...
Gerald Brenan, a 69-year-old Englishman who has lived for most of the past 44 years in Spain, has none of the usual credentials of the autobiographer. He has not pushed a pirogue to the headwaters of the Orinoco or crossed Kurdistan on yakback; he is not a weight...
Then one night, returning home late, Salvatore saw a light in Nina's window. He knocked on her door, and when she answered, he impulsively kissed her. Happy and carefree, Salvatore promptly went home, but Nina was stunned. What had Salvatore done to her? Her four stern-faced brothers...
Busybody. In Venice, Calif., Albert A. Tammer stepped in to separate five girls who were fighting, learned too late that it was a mistake; the ladies gave him a good pummeling, took his wallet and cigarette case for good measure.