Word: knockabouts
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...appalled by the salty character of a tiny, terrible-tempered politician whose rallying cry, "What the blithering blazes!", once tinkled the glass chandeliers of Versailles, made Lloyd George blanch, Woodrow Wilson freeze, and Clemenceau laugh. William Morris ("Billy") Hughes was born a Welshman, but ten years as a knockabout laborer in Australia had made him as indigenous as a kangaroo. When he became Australia's World War I Prime Minister, the Anzacs draped a big slouch hat around his pint-sized head, dubbed him "Little Digger...
...early years, Amos lived with a lusty, knockabout woman, but once he established his plantation he threw her over and married Ary Morgan, daughter of the local aristocracy. They built a house, had children-what else could Amos want? But it was almost as if he had been ordered to pay for the sins of his flinty heart. His marriage turned sour, his children disappointed him and his in-laws looked down on him as a presumptuous hillbilly. Only at the end, when he brought some of his own long-forgotten relations to live on his land, did Amos discover...
...very good movie, or even the best Sinatra has made, but it does give his talents the best cinematic showcase they have had. Cast as a knockabout who is quick of wit and whim, generous and irascible by turns, Frankie handles his role, and the script's quip-studded dialogue, with cocky, easy charm. By his tricky phrasing and showmanlike delivery, he gives a lift to a score full of old hits, e.g., You're a Sweetheart, When You're Smiling, Old Black Magic...
...Good Life seems to mean marriage, about three children, a comfortable home, one or maybe two cars ("a little knockabout for the wife"), and later, perhaps, a summer cottage. The senior's dream of the perfect salary: about $10,000 a year...
...fewer than five clubs had gone in for a touch of Minsky. In place of swing bands they had installed knockabout comedians in baggy pants, and strip-teasers in net brassieres. The town hadn't seen so many strippers since 1942, when Fiorello LaGuardia sent them packing...