Word: groaners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This forgetfulness is changing talented Author Mary McCarthy from a sharp satirist into a hollow groaner. Taut little early McCarthy opuses such as The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt and Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man would never have let a female character get away with a remark like "Ah, you hate it because it is mine. You would like to see it all go to ruin." Still less could an earlier McCarthy character have murmured to herself, "She would leave him, she thought, as soon as the petunias had bloomed." But The Weeds, first...
...exactly discouraged Gary, the eldest of his four kids, from joining in the free-for-all barbershopping that goes on around the Crosby house. In the last couple of years, he even let him appear occasionally on his radio show. Bing wasn't really worried about Gary turning groaner; Gary was too interested in football. And for a career, said Bing, "he has told me he wants to study animal husbandry and agriculture and become a cattle man-and I highly approve of that." But after strapping (180 Ibs.), 17-year-old Gary guest-starred on one radio show...