Word: gauntness
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...makes a play for the landlady, a blowzy, bosomy redhead named Guinevere, who rambles on about past loves and lovers like a debased edition of Joyce's Molly Bloom. She teases, then repulses Mikey, ostensibly because of her husband McLeod, a gaunt, backslid Stalinist. Actually, she is having an affair with another tenant, Hollingsworth, a sadistic Government agent. A late entry in the sexual sweepstakes is Lannie, a Lesbian ex-Trotskyite with a touch of insanity who makes "strange" love to all but McLeod...
...gaunt, bookish fellow named Alexander Ector Orr Munsell was presented last week with a problem calculated to curl a man's nerve ends up like watch springs: he inherited $650,000 from his mother. Under ordinary circumstances, he might well have kissed his fingers and done a buck & wing. But Alexander Ector Orr Munsell was forced to remember something: 18 years ago, finding himself with a million dollars, he had given it all away, and he had sworn he never wanted anything to do with money again...
...national convention opposes the Hoover veterans' recommendations.* That's an edict. If we don't go along, we lose our charter." The Legionnaires docilely chorused agreement. But one Legionnaire was shocked. Legionnaire Martin Merson, a 44-year-old lawyer and Navy veteran, who is still gaunt from malaria contracted on Guadalcanal, began checking around. He found that most of the post members had not the slightest idea of what they were voting on. He found that out of 650 members, only a handful ever attended meetings, and this handful ran the post to suit themselves. Merson...
...road to military adventure. On Oct. 7, 1571, Private Cervantes was aboard a warship in the Spanish and Venetian fleet that sailed into the Gulf of Lepanto and closed with the Ottoman fleet bent on the destruction of Christian power in the Mediterranean. A high fever pinned the gaunt, red-bearded young man to his bunk, but when he heard the battle raging, he threw himself into the fight anyhow...
...little too late to reflect that "a 'person' is a-man-plus-a-woman; with one or the other absent, there is no person." When Gaunt sees his sex-starved fellow men queueing up for the Miss America Doll (including choice of permeating perfumes), it seems to him that "she" is precisely the "mechanical lust-putty" that they have been hankering after all along-an erotic object chosen solely according to "criteria of eye and ear and nose and touch," devoid of all "personality . . . mind . . . ideas or a soul." It is inevitable, Gaunt thinks, that this lascivious dummy...