Word: glick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them, although most have "all their sammyglickness covered up with Oxford manners or have-one-on-me sociability or Christian morals that they pay their respects to every Sunday morning when they don't have too big a hangover." In parsing Sammy, he tries to find the Glick goal and comprehend the Glick means, even returns to Sammy's grubby childhood surroundings in Manhattan's Rivington Street, a thickly packed Jewish section...
...thought of Sammy Glick," he reflects, "rocking in his cradle of hate, malnutrition, prejudice, suspicions, amorality, the anarchy of the poor; I thought of him as a mangy little puppy in a dog-eat-dog world. ... I saw Sammy Glick on a battlefield where every soldier was his own cause, his own army and his own flag, and I realized that I had singled him out not because he had been born into the world any more selfish, ruthless and cruel than anybody else, even though he had become all three, but because in the midst of a war that...
...McGee, was sentenced to death. Strangely sympathetic, Mary interceded, got him a commutation to life imprisonment. Stranger still seemed Mary's lasting friendship for him, for his brother, George, who had been convicted with him and sentenced for life, and for a third man in the gang, Clarence Glick. Frequently she visited them in jail...