Word: ichabod
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...stump, the messenger is as entertaining as his message is fervid. Fuller, 53, is an Ichabod Crane look-alike who is incessantly joking, cajoling, commoving, pressing, pleading for Habitat. He leans and swaggers, hunches his shoulders, pokes his head and forms grandfather spiders with his lean hands, which are constantly aswirl. He still crows about the sales pitch he made to former President Jimmy Carter: "I said to him, 'Sir, are you interested in Habitat for Humanity, or are you very interested?' " Since 1984 Carter has been one of Habitat's celebrity supporters, along with Bob Hope, Paul Newman...
...Bush could choose based simply on his own likes, he would tap his friend the Waspy and witty Wyoming Senator. Extremely popular and partisan, he would be an effective attack dog. Though ardently conservative, his pro-choice abortion stance would ruffle the right. He looks like Ichabod Crane, and his tart tongue could get him in trouble. Worse, his state has only three electoral votes...
...both Irvings share a delight in the grotesque, and Ichabod Crane is to Halloween, after all, what Scrooge is to Christmas. This is must mid' o' the night reading, a story you can feel down deep in your Brom bones...
...fact that those of us not brain-dead know that the donations would be anonymous if this were true. These contributions are offered by a rich person in a feeble effort to combat mortality--to find security in the knowledge that for hundreds of years people will remember him, Ichabod T. Shmuck, every time they write a return address from "Ichabod T. Shmuck Hall...
...Legend of Sleepy Hollow," in The Sketch Book, Washington Irving. From one Irving to another, and this one is utterly different. But both Irvings share a delight in the grotesque, and Ichabod Crane is to Halloween, after all, what Dicken's Scrooge is to Christmas. This is must mid' o' the night reading, a story you can feel down deep in your Brom bones...