Word: busybodyness
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John Horne Burns does not waste words. In a phrase or two, he can put across far more than could paragraphs of pedantic description. Consider his characterization of Mr. Philbrick Grimes, the school busybody, who "zoomed into Princeton at seventeen," and "Kept up a figurative rubbing all the time he...
Last week the man who would carry much of the "primary responsibility" was sworn in. Vandenberg was there, and so was Acheson's omnipresent old Harvard professor and busybody friend, Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court, with whom he walks to work each day (see cut...
But then comes Tilly Cuff. An angular, screechy older cousin of Mrs. Brocken, this creature, "yellow as a plucked chicken," is a busybody who can "scent a private conversation as a cat scents fish." Her cheeks hideously rouged, her arms like drumsticks and her gown some 20 years behind the...
Priests. In many of the stories, O'Connor takes a mild jab at the clergy: Father Ring, a well-meaning but not too wise busybody; Father Cassidy, a worldly sort nonplussed by a girl's blithe confession of sin ("A philosopher of 60 letting Eve, aged 19, tell...
Busybody. In Phoenix, Ariz., Francis Joseph Bressi, 23, walked into the sheriff's office, explained that he had married eight women, six of them bigamously, now wanted to be locked up "rather than jeopardize the happiness of more girls."