Word: lice
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...tripe." Instead of suing, Columnist Robb said, Doris Duke should have organized "an old-fashioned vigilante party and horsewhipped the shabby crew responsible for this verbal assault. A cat-o'-nine-tails speaks a powerful language that might even penetrate the elephant hide and conscious of these lice...
...clochard, to Le Monde, "that M. Vexliard's work is a masterpiece of erudition . . . but has he roamed the streets on a winter night looking for a corner to sleep in? Has he had a fist fight over a rotten Camembert? Has he had his shirt full of lice? I am only a former clochard but I affirm that 99.5% of clochards drink. The only thing for which a clochard ever stirs is red wine. Real clochards are not redeemable. They are Bohemians and will fall to pieces the minute they are subjected to discipline...
...poets to be "boisterous, dissolute, sometimes repellent." If it is the literate public you have in mind, I hasten to inform you that it expects nothing of the kind. On the contrary, it demands that a poet be a gentleman, in the most significant sense of the word. Lice and low company, added to booze and borrowed breeches, are the marks of the charlatan, not the true poet...
Even as the delegations were on the way to Yalta, Harry Hopkins reported to F.D.R. that Churchill "says that if we had spent ten years on research, we could not have found a worse place in the world than Yalta . . .He claims it is good for typhus and deadly lice, which thrive in those parts...
Inevitably, Rocky made his tour through a long series of reform schools and jails. He was a big shot, a guy who shared lice-ridden cells with drug addicts, crooked politicians, bookies, lunatics and gunmen. During his few periods of freedom he did a little "amateur" boxing for pocket money, but most of the time the thugs he traveled with had no use for padded gloves. A lead pipe was better...