Word: butts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only did Edward demand of his friend such constant and lavish hospitality that his financial ruin was inevitable, but he made him the butt of more & more brutal practical jokes. Through it all, through ridicule, poverty, and obsolescence, Christopher remained a faithful paladin, faithful unto death, which he incurred through obeying a royal summons when...
...enjoined Henry Factly Jr. from trying to evict his aged mother by 1 ) putting an electric fence across the drive to shock her, 2) hiding iron pipes in the grass to trip-her, 3 ) digging up her flower garden, 4) giving a bull a rock-filled milk can to butt so that "terrific noises would result...
Suddenly Moher prodded Abbott in the ribs with the butt end of his stick. Abbott dropped his stick to punch Moher. Moher knocked him down with the stick, hammered him. With a riot in the making, Coach Chase refused to continue! the game. It took 26 stitches to close a wound in Abbott's cheek. Said Chase: "If it had been on a street corner, it would have been criminal." In collegiate circles these days, it was just hockey, new style...
...also displayed a somewhat elementary sense of humor. His favorite butt was the cook; he likes to remember creeping into the kitchen to surprise her by hiding a raw apple within one of her roasted chickens. His humor has not grown much more sophisticated. Recently, when asked why he had gone to see the Hollywood version of the Hemingway story The Killers, he replied: "I heard those gangsters had found a new way of making money...
...rare friendly moments, his father nicknamed him "Mr. Hurricane." The simple outline of Mirabeau's doings becomes a kind of epic of frustration whose misery Madame Vallentin, engrossed in her psychological analyses, does not seem to appreciate. He was ugly, and so he was the butt of the brilliant nobility, and a burden to his father who was at first ashamed of him and then, as Mirabeau developed as a writer, jealous...