Word: max
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Other Carson cronies also spread the good news. The wife of Carson's attorney, Henry I. Bushkin, known to Tonight fans as "Bombastic" Bushkin, told her father Max Beck, who bought 5,000 shares and netted a $4,496 profit. Frederic J. Freed, a law associate of Bushkin's, bought 4,000 shares in his father-in-law's name and later sold them for a $4,980 gain...
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...Max Wright's mercurial Mayor leads the American Rep actors in their flight from traditional-conversational exchange, alternating with precise control between an entirely non-verbal, vacuous moan and a galloping torrent of words tripping over each other in their eagerness to overwhelm the listener. He shouts "I'm not guilty" like an incantation to dispel the ills the world flings at him; his colleagues ponder their response to the supposed inspector-general's arrival with the cacophonous murmur of an elderly Orthodox Jewish congregation praying at different speeds. Richard Grusin's nasal, rotund Director of Welfare Institutions and Eric...
...reader is scarcely surprised to learn that in the District of Columbia jail a young white antiwar protester of the 1960s was raped dozens of times by blacks. In a 75-page opinion, Federal Judge John L. Kane Jr. last December held that conditions in Colorado's Old Max prison were so primitive and confining that they were bound to damage the minds of the inmates...
Pritchett is a master of the casual apothegm. He accounts for Max Beerbohm's cultivated eccentricities by noting the "foreign strain" in his parentage: "Expatriation allows one to drop a lot of unwanted moral luggage, lets talent travel lightly and opens it to the histrionic." He speculates on the Edwardians' taste for the novels of George Meredith, for satire and high comedy: "One can see why: an age of surfeit had arrived. The lives of the upper classes were both enlivened and desiccated by what seems to have been a continuous diet of lobster and champagne-a diet...