Word: gluttonize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real worth lies in the embroidery with which Author Spring (My Son, My Son) surrounds that crimson gown. The rich and reverent descriptions of the English scene are worth the price of admission, as are some of the characters-especially Chad's Dickensian Uncle Arthur, a glutton who grows auriculae and dotes on a skinny whippet...
...coping with her dilemma, she is occupied with shyster theatrical producers, a pedestrian suitor named Dr. Shapiro, and the diehard devotion of little Wally Wronken. A character who warms Marjorie's heart, and the reader's, is her uncle, Samson-Aaron, a robustious clown, a seam-splitting glutton, and a lovable dead-beat ("But a nickel, Modgerie, a nickel I always had, to buy you a Hershey bar ven I came to this house"). In his simple way, he shows Marjorie how close she really is to the faith she once brashly dismissed as a Stone Age relic...
...good for Ike. Expressing mock surprise that the President was supporting Republicans after so many of them had "failed to support" the Administration program, Johnson cracked that "President Eisenhower will have no one to blame but himself" if a G.O.P. Congress is elected. Cried Lyndon: "That man is a glutton for punishment...
...makes up pathetic stories about a lovely dead sister who never existed. The sister, of course, is herself "dead, dead and buried under layers and layers of fat." The huge girl is ill and has the intelligence to know it, but at the end she is compulsively devouring a glutton's meal to the horror of a friend who has found...
Arden-Clarke's gamble seems to be paying off. Prison life sobered Nkrumah, who was never a glutton for punishment; responsibility awed his adolescent party. Nkrumah could not resist wearing a Nehru-style cap with the letters P.G. (for Prison Graduate) embroidered on the side, but he pumped the governor's hand and agreed that since the constitution has made him the virtual boss of the Gold Coast, he might as well give it a trial. "I am a friend of Britain," he piously announced in his first big speech. "I desire for the Gold Coast the status...