Word: cutup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Church & Athletics. Of the three Kelly daughters, Peggy was the oldest and a cutup, Lizanne the youngest and an extrovert. Grace, the middle one, born Nov. 12, 1929, was shy, quiet, and for years snuffled with a chronic cold. The big, 15-room house in plain East Falls, across the Schuylkill River from the Main Line, was the meeting place for the whole neighborhood. "There was a lawn out back with swings and a sandbox, a tennis court and the usual things like that," says Grace. Summers, the Kelly family had a house on the Jersey shore at Ocean City...
...Captain Horace had the same sort of trouble in 1952, but made up before court convened. This time, though, it seemed that Marion intended to go through with it. Hollywood was not surprised, because it had been a stormy marriage. Even for fun-loving Marion, Captain Horace was a cutup. On one occasion he found a gun and shot out all the Japanese lanterns around the family swimming pool during a party, then went into the huge parking area of the mansion and shot and slashed all the tires on the guests' cars...
...onetime Reuters and A.P. correspondent in India who now lives in England, Novelist Desani knows the pomposities of East and West, spoofs both with the irreverence of a classroom cutup tossing spitballs at the teacher. The most stinging hits are reserved for his credulous native India...