Word: clinkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fugitive. What a clinker! I'd have lost money if they'd made me a present of it and paid the express...
...accuracy, in greenish gobs of shadow laced with silvery threads and buttons of light. He had put the paint on thickly, Murch explained, because "that helps create a thing out of the painting itself." Among his table-top subjects were a dead bird, a dead fish poised on a clinker, an ancient phonograph, and assorted eggs, lemons and potatoes...
...Admired Unread. As a sampler of vintage literature, Pritchett has excellent taste. These 32 brief essays (many of which have appeared in London's New Statesman and Nation) restore the grandeur of such unvisited landmarks of English fiction as Humphrey Clinker, Middlemarch, Heart of Midlothian, Edwin Drood. They reduce to scale some modern writers-Wells, Bennett, D. H. Lawrence-while adding to the dimensions of several continental Europeans and two Americans: Walt Whitman and Stephen Crane...
Later they recorded three more sides: the mood, Pastiche, a violent Rimsky-Korsakov; the two "jumpers," Double Doghouse (using two bass fiddles instead of one) and A Slight Case of the Shakes, Brick's version of a hangover. "Not a clinker" (sour note), said the maestro happily...
...clinker-a bad or sour musical note...