Word: dray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...store, meat market, two hotels, restaurant, two farm implement houses, photograph gallery, undertaker, opera house and lodge hall, telephone exchange, two poolrooms, barbershop, two livery barns, one auto livery, blacksmith and machine shop, newspaper, three elevators, lumberyard and three coal yards, feed mill, creamery and flour mill and two dray lines...
...owlishly circumspect on the Sunday TV talk shows, can be more forthcoming in private interviews when guaranteed anonymity. The awkwardness of this arrangement is that the press can only hint that its information comes from the horse's mouth and that this particular horse is not just any old dray horse. Such anonymous sourcing is irritating to the reader, and a burden on the press's credibility, but remains a useful device to convey what really seems to be afoot...
Alex (Jon Voight) wears a white suit with more creases in it than W.H. Auden's face. He drives a Rolls-Royce that pants and sputters like a dray mare about to be shot. He vamps his way through calamities all of his own devising with a bad little boy's giggle at just how cute he is. He is not cute, not charming, not nearly substantial enough for a comedy about high rollers in Vegas. Alex bravadoes himself into the Dr. Zhivago Suite at the MGM Grand Hotel with his friend Jerry (Burt Young), who plays Oscar...
According to Duckett, "He started doing things he was 'supposed' to be doing, and he just wasn't being Donald." Fleming broke out of his dray spell as the Ivy League season started in earnest, but his example wasn't enough to overcome a host of other problems--notably the lack of quickness and a lack of drive--which the Crimson faced...
Managers of Ferdinand's, Haim Iffrah and Isaac Dray, refused to coment on the restaurant's closing. They said DiGiovanni--who also owns the Ha'penny, adjacent restaurants The Blue Parrot and The Idler, and The Atrium Cafe on Church St.--was out of town for the week...