Word: crow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Organized crow had come a long way since the '50's, when the men would take the shell down the Charles to Boston every night in order to got drunk. It was through the magenta handkerchiefs the crew were around their heads that Harvard got its color and the new journal its name...
...leading characters are Johnny Somers, history teacher; Crow Johnson, a hard-eyed, mean, man-about-Pineboro; Bill Boone, onetime football star; and Blackie Boone, his wife-"ask anybody in Fillmore about her." The portraits have the hard authenticity of those notices that are put up in post offices of people who are wanted for murder. And the characters seem like suspects in Author Gibbons' police lineup, blinking in the limelight, not quite sure of what they are charged with...
...wife Blackie is as amoral as Bill, but far more intelligent, moving from Bill to his brother-in-law, from a happily married man to Johnny Somers, and from innocent Somers to a rural Machiavellian, Crow Johnson, managing violently dramatic exposures of her lovers, public humiliations, or rejoicing in such gothic scenes as an embrace beside a corpse...
...been occasional strikes of workers before the war, but none had been very effective. Compared with conditions in many a U.S. mining town, living conditions were good; the benevolently paternal Big' Five provided free housing and free medical service, the climate was salubrious. Then came Harry Bridges, the crow-beaked, fellow-traveling boss of the West Coast longshoremen, bearing another kind of gospel to Hawaii...
...Schizoid Mouse. Vishinsky was still talking. ". . . Mr. Dulles . . . reminded me of the fox who . . . sang encomiums and paeans of praise to the crow which was holding some cheese in her mouth. Well, the fox was only waiting for the crow to start singing...