Word: galahading
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...paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London's bohemia. But Prelude never really gets going and never comes to an end, simply limping from sketch to sketch...
...Commodore, held only about 60,000 shares). And Bob Young was a specialist in rallying small stockholders behind him ("Aunt Janes," he calls them). To the Aunt Janes-and the Uncle Jims-tired of being bumped around in rattletrap coaches, Bob Young appeared to be a streamlined Galahad on wheels. To fellow railroad men, whom he has unceasingly denounced in magazine articles, full-page ads and speeches for the stagecoach way they run their business, he seemed more like a devil in the firebox...
...Pursuit. When she and her sisters grew up, Linda's adolescent dreams ended in her marrying a dry-as-dust son of a governor of the Bank of England. She left him to marry an even drier & dustier Communist, and was at her lowest ebb when her Galahad turned up-a French duke whose wicked charms should set U.S. bosoms aflame from coast to coast...
...they might have guessed that night, success hadn't changed Bummy any: he still got into trouble. A few months later he was arrested for beating up a Brooklyn clothing salesman. At Madison Square Garden, in 1940, he fouled Fritzie Zivic, no Galahad himself, with ten groin punches in one round, wound up by kicking the referee, all but started a riot...
...First awarded six years ago,The Redbook-Dodd, Mead Prize has yet to be won by a man. Some prizewinners: Elizabeth Seifert (Young Doctor Galahad, 1938); Harlow Estes (Hildreth, 1940); Ellen Proctor (Turning Leaves...