Word: growler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clarity and concision to fiction. At just over 200 pages, The Flaming Corsage contains more dramatic events, bright dialogue and strong characters than most novels twice its length. The generous spirit is best reflected by Daugherty's dying father, who jauntily toasts his own send-off with a growler of ale and an intimation of paradise that, he says, resembles the inside of a fireman's boot. "That's not what heaven looks like," says his priest. "Then," replies the elder Daugherty, "I'm goin' someplace else." Fiction is full of men and women who can be larger than life...
...proper Albanians in 1912. "At just over 200 pages, 'The Flaming Corsage' contains more dramatic events, bright dialogue and strong characters than most novels twice its length," says Sheppard. "The generous spirit is best reflected by Daugherty's dying father, who jauntily toasts his own send-off with a growler of ale and an intimation of paradise that, he says, resembles the inside of a fireman's boot. "That1s not what heaven looks like," says his priest. "Then," replies the elder Daugherty, "I'm goin' someplace else." Fiction is full of men and women who can be larger than life...
...especially at the high end. Toyota has enlarged its rugged but cramped 4Runner; Lexus is just out with a pricey model (in the $50,000-plus range) that it calls the LX450; and Mercedes is hurrying to complete a $300 million factory in Alabama that will build a muscly growler it calls an aav, or all-activities vehicle, with a vip price tag in the mid-$30,000 range. (Will it have the effortless, raunchy, bad-attitude rumble of this writer's black-with-red pinstripes 1985 Ford F-250 plow truck, noble on its big wheels, with...