Word: jellybeans
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...describing the members of the Neville Club as they sit in hubbered lumps smoking Hernia and taking Odeon. In this startling collection of verse and prosery, Lennon has rolled Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and James Thurber into one great post-Joycean spitball. All those jellybean-lobbing, caterwauling Beatle fans are not going to understand...
With its soda-pop and jellybean atmosphere, San Francisco's Blum's (rhymes with Tums) looks like any old-fashioned corner candy store. Blum's hustling, bustling proprietor, Fred Levy, 37, wants his customers to think that's just what it is. But the atmosphere is deceiving. Blum's sells more candy (780,000 lbs. last year in its San Francisco store alone) than any other retail store in the world, and has a list of mail-order customers that reads like Who's Who (among them: Eisenhower, Noel Coward, Jim Farley, Lauren Bacall...
Authentic Jellybean. Mrs. Towne and her daughters came back. Mrs. Towne was "overflowing with misinterpreted Continental idioms, bad hotel French, and a lofty disdain for everything American." Elaine got herself pregnant, and half the young sports in the Delta made up a $10,000 purse for the salesman who married her off their hands. Van, as viciously authentic a jellybean* as has ever seen print, headed faster & faster toward jail. Old Man Towne bought a ball team so he could watch Sunday baseball, won $10,000 bets on game after game...
...Professor Potts, Scriptwriters Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder took time out for research. Among the oddities they unearthed was one"Muggsy" Meyers, race-track tout, who refers to himself as a "ducat hustler." From Muggsy and associated sources, the scripters found to their dismay that in 1941's "jellybean jargon" a country boy was no longer a yokel, but a "loose tooth"; a dollar, no longer a buck, had become a "banger"; "cooking with gas" meant perfect understanding...
...have no doubt but that items of news in the article are substantially correct, but your reference to "Jellybeans" is all wrong, and especially your explanation in the note. You define a jellybean as a heap this "Southern small opprobrium town upon the loafer." Why heap this opprobrium upon the South? We are as loyal to your publication as any portion of the country. Then again, why refer to a jellybean as a loafer? A jellybean is not necessarily a loafer, although he may be one. A jellybean is just another name for a cookie-pusher. Members of this species...