Word: loudmouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Statements like these are usually made by the windbag at the end of the bar, the one who ends by losing the bets and buying the drinks. But in each of the above cases the loudmouth would be on the receiving end of the drinks...
...main business at hand, which is to promote the match with King and, if possible, to get King's goat. He recently appeared in a pro-celebrity tournament at Forest Hills, N.Y., playing in granny rags. He even has gone so far as to call King a "loudmouth," which is rather like Linda Lovelace calling Alice Cooper an exhibitionist. Riggs promises to "psych her out of her socks." Ah, he gloats, how about this: "I get the biggest funeral wreath you ever saw, and I wear black crape all over during the match and put a casket...
...cold hot dogs to sportswriters ("Sock sniffers in the locker room") and the sports establishment ("They've been abusing the public for years"). Their format is like the New England Patriots' offense: haphazard. Their delivery sounds like three guys gassing in a ginmill-that is. loose and loudmouth...
...judicial temperament, respect for the rule of law, or age. Singling out ten magistrates judged to be among the most "flamboyantly" awful of all, the council's report recorded a series of scathing opinions. "Difficult to believe he had ever attended law school," it said of one. "A loudmouth, showoff, vicious, vindictive bully," was one lawyer's judgment on another magistrate. On still another: "Ignorant, arbitrary, contemptuous of those who appear before him and highly bigoted against various groups, especially blacks." The more Establishment-minded Chicago Bar Association, by contrast, found only 38 of the magistrates unqualified...
...pros appreciate the way Trevino courts the crowds. "All the world loves a loudmouth," says one image-conscious veteran. "But sometimes Lee can be so coarse"?a reference to Trevino's predilection for jokes about "booze and broads." Most players agree, however, that he may be one of the best things to happen to golf since the steel-shafted club. "He sure brings the people in," says Frank Beard. After one tournament. Beard recalls, he saw Trevino "packing up his car, wearing his cowboy hat and his cowboy boots. I couldn't help noticing that he had more people...