Word: jay
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Forman sold the steel to Cleveland's Martin J. Kutz, who passed it on at twice the mill price to Broker Jay Friedman. The anchor man on the daisy chain was Seymour Waldman, though he managed to get hold of only about half the steel. He sold it to the Daisy Manufacturing Co. of Plymouth, Mich, (air rifles, BB shot, toys) for $12.01. Waldman's price included a freight charge from La Crosse, Wis. (on which there is a 3% federal tax), even though during all six transactions the steel had never moved from Steubenville...
Chosen Country spraddles some 80-odd years of American life (1848-1930), but ;he only ground it really covers is from soapbox to soap opera and back. To hold that ground, Dos Passos mobilizes a small army of characters, chief among them Jay Pignatelli...
...Jay is a man without a country, or feels he is. Illegitimate son of a sporty Italo-American lawyer-millionaire and a destitute Kentucky belle, he spends his boyhood caroming around Europe. When he gets to the U.S. and Harvard Law School, the strain of being a "wop" makes him as sensitive as his bastardy. The pinch of his father's dwindling fortune makes him self-reliant, and his jumps through the rusty hoops of experience set up by Novelist Dos Passos make him a bore. Examples: Jay's first impotent foray into sex with a Greenwich Village...
...Jay gradually revs up the tempo of his life with casual fornications. "She pushed her face with wide wet lips and dark staring eyes up into his. 'Jay, I'm glad it's you instead of the iceman or something.' " But he never comes to know his true self or his native land until he falls head-over-heels in love with a girl named Lulie, straight from the Midwestern heart of America. " 'Husband,' she said. 'Wife,' he said. The words made them bashful. They clung together against their bashfulness . . . The risen...
Paint Your Wagon (book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Frederick Loewe; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is the wrong advice. It should be: Grease your wagon wheels. This musical of Gold Rush days has plenty of color, plus agreeable music and lively dancing. But with all these assists, it breaks loose only occasionally from a lumbering stagecoach of a book...