Word: gamey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the greatness so suddenly thrust upon him. In the process he becomes even more bedraggled and gormless than the natives, and makes it incredible that anyone, much less a bright scornful girl like Pegeen Mike, could call him a lad with "a mighty spirit in him and a gamey heart...
Advice. The book does not depend on its gamey moments and archaic oddballs for its best effects. Essentially it is a victory of writing, each sentence surely pointed toward its purpose. Author Cheevers rueful love of his characters touches every page of the book. But perhaps he liked Leander best, Leander who left this "Advice to my sons'" in a copy of Shakespeare...
...What is really disturbing," Inez Robb went on, "is the discovery that the [U.S.], despite free public education and a high literacy rate, contains so many morons who will support these gamey magazines. Teenagers are abandoning comic books in favor of this exposé tripe." Instead of suing, Columnist Robb said, Doris Duke should have organized "an old-fashioned vigilante party and horsewhipped the shabby crew responsible for this verbal assault. A cat-o'-nine-tails speaks a powerful language that might even penetrate the elephant hide and conscious of these lice...