Word: clodfuls
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...women of history double in contemporary roles, shows us the price Marlene has paid for her rise. Fleeing her home and family at 17, she left her illegitimate child Angie (Hayman) with her sister Joyce (Findlay) to be raised as Joyce's own. Angie is a touching clod of a girl, dimwitted, lazy and fearful...
...entertains Americans. Thomas Jefferson, that prince of the Enlightenment, left the 19th century muttering about his illegitimate children by Sally Hemings, and about his nephews Lilburne and Isham Lewis, who murdered a slave on the Kentucky frontier. Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel was widely satirized as a country clod who smoked a pipe. Mary Todd Lincoln, a sad and slightly unhinged woman, went on shopping sprees that left her $27,000 in debt by 1864. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt suffered posthumous humiliations at the hands of their own children. Seven years ago, Elliott Roosevelt wrote a book discussing...
...will not seek to offer a standardized version of the language; its gaze is fixed instead on linguistic oddities too localized to win general acceptance. For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder. False teeth are known colloquially as snappers, plaster pearls, chow chompers and china clippers. The term baby carriage is now used nationally, but baby coach is a popular variation in Mid-Atlantic states and baby buggy is used in the Midwest...
...campers, motorboats and other ecologically unsound objects. An actor, or writer, of parts might have made such a figure into a tragically flawed hero, someone like Willie Stark in All the King's Men. But there is no awareness of this dimension as we plod on with this clod Kovak through the long years until he gets his comeuppance, first at a Senate committee hearing, then at the wrong end of some shotguns...
...Most Beautiful Woman in Radcliffe looked confused, smiled weakly and passed on. I pulled my roommate aside. 'Don't you see," he panted, "I had to show her that I wasn't just another clumsy clod, that I dropped the tray on purpose." This story is told with a note of caution: readers should not attempt to emulate my roommate, as there are not that many trays of food in each dining-room, and there are fewer Most Beautiful Women in Radcliffe...