Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were wounded feelings in other capitals besides Tokyo. The Argentines were chagrined when John Davis Lodge was shunted to Buenos Aires, after the notably uninterested envoy's appointment to the Organization of American States was overruled by Secretary of State William Rogers. At OAS, Joseph J. Jova, another...
Take, for example, the relationship between the New York City Department of Social Services and a relief client named David Davis. With supporting testimony from three doctors that his wife had asthma, he applied to the department for an air conditioner. Although 99% of the city's relief recipients...
At this point, welfare administrators finally twigged. Last week Davis was in court, charged with receiving four welfare checks, cashing them, and then falsely telling caseworkers he had never received them so that he could get replacements worth $222. Technically, the charges against Davis are grand and petty larceny, but...
Davis Grubb tells his fool story just right. The reader is not bitten by the wooden false teeth till page 172, too late for him to pretend that he knew they were lurking all the time in the sinister West Virginia underbrush.
What Davis is overwriting, it turns out, is a marvelous sort of flapdoodle that does not fit into any category that book-jacket haikuists can think of. The tall stories that Faulkner wrote when his mood was bourbon-light are in the same family; The Reivers bears a resemblance to...