Word: fer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twin-diesel yacht. A careful dresser, he owns 70 suits (most made in Europe for upwards of $200 each) and 30 pairs of shoes (most made in Paris for $75 a pair), sports vests with lapels, blue shirts with pleats. Superstitious and a gambler, he enjoys chemin de fer and craps, jokingly claims to make many a decision by consulting the stars ("This is my lucky time of year") or by shaking a pair of brass dice that he regularly carries...
...during World War II. At 37 he spends much of his spare time drinking milk (three quarts a day), racing quarter horses and taking potshots at his TV opposition. Says Robertson: "The adult westerns are dishonest. All that conversation is just a cheap, underhanded way of makin' up fer the lack of a good story...
...have never seen another place where a sheriff could swagger around the polls advising voters: "I don't give a goddam who you vote fer-I'm gonna be your sher'f." And anyone who went fishing in Wallins Creek after an election was more likely to hook a ballot box than a fish...
...first big step on the road to the depths of deg-re-day-I say first-medicinal wine from a teaspoon, then-beer from a bottle! And the next thing you know, your son is playin' fer money in a pinchback suit. And list'nin' to some big out-a-town Jasper hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'. Not a wholesome trot tin' race. No! But a race where they set down right on the horse! Like to see some stuck-up Jockey-boy settin' on Dan Patch? . . . Trouble...
...This Tartar woman is fer me," drawls Big John through his Fu Manchu mustache as Susan ("much woman") Hayward goes dawdling sensuously through the desert on a litter borne by sweating slaves. He kills her guards and carries her off. "Know this, woman," gruffs Wayne, looking about as uncomfortable as a right tackle caught reading Swinburne, "I take you fer wife." But as he pulls Hayward hayward, Hayward pulls away. "For me," she snarls, "there is no ease while you live, Mongol." Says John: "Yer beooduful in yer wrath." He takes her on a trip to the court...