Word: catfooted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Urged on by Julie, Cancy grew bolder. When Catfoot Grimes and an Italian storekeeper peddled their liquor to the Negroes, Cancy looked the other way -after pocketing a fat cut. When Doc Stanley found out, Cancy's pals ran him out of town. But Julie, greed and liquor got the better of Cancy in the end. Slowly, shrewdly, Editor Mabry and his son piled up the evidence against Cancy, worked painstakingly to win over one respectable citizen after another. Then they struck-in an editorial that staggered Carvell City and brings the story to a bloody...
William Saroyan can raise the same kind of stirring laugh that Chekhov could. Sample: Jim Dandy's henchman reads him a sales letter from one ex-Jockey Earl Catfoot ("Why should you go without? Go with. . . . Don't be a sucker-be a winner."). The pessimist comments: "It wouldn't help." Says Jim Dandy, controlling his temper: "You may be mistaken. Weighing one hundred pounds, the man has ridden horses...
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