Word: gamey
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...Gamey. In Cambridge, Mass., the chief of police got complaints that his men were slow in responding to calls, promptly is sued a departmental order: no more dominoes...
...gamey quips ("He thought he might as well go to Canada and try the R.C.A.F., and Beth has taken a little house to be near him." "What ever for? I thought Joe was a fag." "So he is, dear, but Beth is a camp follower...
...Dirty, greasy, sweat-soaked garments make the wearer not only gamey but cold...
...drawings and 57 prints by 20th Century American artists. Dawdling gallerygoers, who could scarcely tell when night fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo, John Sloan's Backyards, Greenwich Village, Charles Burchfield's Old House by the Creek, Max Weber's The Chinese Restaurant. Most of the 30 newly acquired works were new only to the Whitney Museum, added to the housewarming without...
...another long, episodic novel depicting some unsavory doings among the best people. Since Recapture the MOON, has a central character who is fundamentally decent, and since it ends happily, its picture of social decay is not so thoroughgoing as Huxley's, but its moral atmosphere is still distinctly gamey...