Word: hounded
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...this is on the whole his finest performance. Groucho still carries the weight of the show and the woes of the world somewhere in the kidney region and walks, accordingly, with the famous sway-backed stoop. He still fires off his lines in the voice of a baying hound, with such irrefutable conviction that even the outrageously bad ones are funny. (Sample: "Your life is hanging by a thread." "So are my pants...
...good old ignorant days of Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin, the thriller was a mild, usually non-murderous affair in which there was nothing more bestial than a hound with phosphorescent jowls. Today, when "emancipation is complete [and] Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs," the pulp thriller is "a daydream appropriate to a totalitarian age . . . a distilled version of the modern political scene, in which such things as mass bombings of civilians . . . torture to obtain confessions . . . execution without trial . . . drownings in cesspools, systematic falsification of records and statistics . . . bribery and quislingism are normal and morally neutral, even admirable...
...used car lots the over-ceiling premium bought a jack, an extra battery, a blanket-at $100 and up. In Oklahoma City, a dealer had a tired hunting hound which he habitually sold-along with a car. The hound dog always shuffled back...
Flowers & Porcelain. Since he left his native Scotland as a boy, Clark Kerr has spent his life in a dozen capitals on four continents selling sweet British reasonableness. He looks and chats like the headmaster of a fashionable boys' school. Preferring hound's tooth jackets and mixed tweeds to ambassadorial tails, he would sooner talk on Scottish wild flowers and Chinese porcelains than on politics and policies. But few diplomats can be more persuasive in ten languages...
...many merchants will be stuck with unsalable stocks of ersatz goods. Reason: they have no stocks left. Said one retail store manager: "Our stocks are as clean as a hound's tooth...