Word: eyeteeth
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...Giesler was soon cutting his eyeteeth in some toweringly strange trials. Murders were a specialty, and in all, Giesler handled more than 70 murder cases over the years. Not one of his clients was executed, not even Bugsy Siegel, the excess-personnel man at Murder, Inc. And when Norman Selby, the fighter known as Kid McCoy, * was charged with the murder of his mistress, Giesler got a verdict of manslaughter even though Selby had earlier insisted to the police that he was guilty. Giesler's explanation of the confession: the Kid was so depressed that he wanted...
...Ideals & Eyeteeth. Sprung partly, and loosely, from several of his casual pieces in The New Yorker, The Beauty Part more or less concentrates on the theme that U.S. society is full of nuts who earn their living as plumbers or admen but who really think they are artists and writers; private eyes spend their free time "making collages out of seaweed and graham crackers," and "every housewife in America has a novel under her apron." Cruising around the stage by way of illustration are some of the most spectacular phonies since Piltdown...
...Hubris (Lahr), and his own father, Milo Leotard Allardyce DuPlessis Weatherwax (also Lahr), a wild Park Avenue lecher. When his son admits a literary interest in the exotic sins suggested by Lolita and the works of Oscar Wilde, Weatherwax bellows encouragingly: "That's the stuff to cut your eyeteeth on. You have to learn to crawl before you can walk...
...Hepburn and Norma Shearer look like haute couture models, put Greta Garbo in sequined slacks. Lynn Fontanne in a white organdy bow that started a national fad, released Joan Crawford from a movie prison in a little basic black dress that any right-thinking woman would have given her eyeteeth...
...Whose Eyeteeth? Was it true, Callas was asked, that she had told Bing she was going to give up singing? "It is true," said Callas, "that I will not sing routine-those old performances of Norma, Lucia. I think it is my duty as an artist. Once you have Callas, treat her properly...