Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after them, he says, trying to protect my money. No, the cop says, your son is a crook. Pop immediately changes his mind and turns on his son and tries to kill him. In other words, Pop goes from love to hate in thirty seconds. Almost, but not quite, Mr. Hoye. In five minutes you might have done...
...With Mr. Nixon's political demise on Nov. 5 we can, alas, welcome Spiroagnew as a permanent household expression. It will replace Achilles' heel...
...Times continued to editorialize against "Mr. Agnew's Unfitness," and even reprinted the original editorial when commenting on Agnew's rebuttal. Later the editorial page appeared to retreat a bit. "Mr. Agnew makes some debating points," the paper remarked, and eased its wording to "potential" conflict of interest. Said the Times: "No where did we accuse him of violating any law. What we did-and do-suggest is that he failed to act with sufficient propriety...
...pithy putdown remains the most effective way to silence a heckler-provided, of course, he is reasonably civilized and relatively quiet. A classic was the riposte by John Wilkes, an 18th century libertine and libertarian, who heard the Earl of Sandwich roar at him in Commons: "I am convinced, Mr. Wilkes, that you will die either of a pox or on the gallows." Wilkes parried: "That, my lord, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your principles." Today, Prime Minister Harold Wilson can also hold his own. When a heckler shouted "Rub bish!" during a 1966 election rally, Wilson...
Mosby's Memoirs and Other Stories is not major Bellow. In one respect it is a package designed to keep the author's name before the public. Three of the six stories in the collection, Looking for Mr. Green, The Gonzaga Manuscripts and A Father-to-Be, first appeared between hard covers in the 1956 edition of Seize the Day. This fact Bellow's publisher has conspicuously avoided mentioning. But once the reader gets into the stories, annoyance gives way to grudging gratitude, for these are fine examples of the craft of short fiction...