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Proportionately, the lesser the character, the meaner the line, as when the King of the Beggars says to Gringoire, "Good intentions never put an onion in your soup." And showing the effects of spotty scripting, the beggars' hangman, deprived of Gringoire's neck, laments, "It was such a nice neck." Comic relief of this sort seems out of place...
...thing about Novelist Erskine Caldwell: he plays no regional favorites. He sniffs out fictional meanness and degeneracy with the zest of a Berkshire in a barnyard, and he imagines them as readily in staid old New England as he does in the meaner stretches of Georgia. Actually the region doesn't matter. By now, Caldwell's characters are not so much recognizable people as mass-produced toys which squeak set speeches and make appropriate gestures when wound up. In Episode in Palmetto (1950) he blessedly called a halt to the "cyclorama of Southern life" that got its start...
Sultan, the meaner of the two lions, shot into the arena in one terrible, arching bound. Before May Schafer could move or cry out, his yellow teeth closed on her throat and the force of his charge carried her to the ground. Then, fired by the taste of blood, he pulled her into a corner of the cage...
...brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is bigger and meaner. Sometimes brown rats massacre black rats, but more commonly they interbreed, blending the species into an intermediate type. The U.S., which has both kinds (and others too), is a melting pot for rats...
...financial ads, gave a Rosey example of how they might be done: "AMALGAMATED GOULASH-The Stock That Has Everything! Coming Soon to the Bijou (formerly E. F. Hutton, Inc.) Romance! Mystery! Dividends! Starring Mortimer Schnook, Our Vice President Who Thrilled You in 'Passion on the Curb.' Meaner Than Mason. Creepier Than Karloff. Doors Open 10:00 a.m. $13 a share...