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...rooted for the American League. The first baseball team I can remember following was the New York Yankees back in their heyday of the 60s. And the first sports heros I had were named Mantle, Maris and Ford. I know if I still have them stuffed away in a drawer, but at one point I had twelve different Mickey Mantle baseball cards. You know, the kind that came with the crappy tasting gum that you gave away and the multi-colored fact card that you kept...
...complementary transactions," which occur, for instance, when a husband's Adult speaks to his wife's Adult and gets a response in kind. In that type of exchange, the husband might ask, "Where are my cuff links?" and his wife might reply, "In your top left dresser drawer"-or, perhaps, "I'm not sure, but I'll help you find them...
...fact that you made somebody mad, you made a big mistake and now there's somebody doing time for it, and it ain't anything personal you understand, but it just has to be done...So you stick out the hand and... they put your fingers in the drawer, and then one of them kicks it shut. Ever hear bones breaking? Just like a man snapping a shingle. Hurts like a bastard...
...Digest's famous sense of patriotism shows up in a Fourth of July celebration, complete with fireworks. The Digest's equally famous conservative editing discreetly removed the section of the original novel in which Tom discovers an 'anatomy' book--with a color frontispiece--in his schoolteacher's top desk drawer. Even the meticulous detail referred to before is typical of the Digest, which is quite proud of its reputation of accuracy stemming from incessant research...
...LIFE comics in Measure for Measure come from Shakespeare's second drawer. Since the play is as smutty a text as he ever penned, director Kahn has helped the low-comedy scenes along with a considerable amount of bawdy byplay--such as the masturbatory caressing of a staff, the tossing about of a large rubber phallus, the snagging of a staff in a codpiece, the goosing of a tart with a loaf of bread, and the kneeing of an officer in the groin by a brothel-keeper. Ronald Frazier is amusing enough as Elbow, the malapropistic constable (a type better...