Word: mulct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sand qualify as neither phony nor vicious. There is a Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to pin Jordan to the floorboards of the half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete his ginmill to the ruin of the summer dwellers' dunes. Author Waller neatly wrings...
...Mulct's Holiday. A first-class comedy, partly in French, explaining how not to take a vacation (TIME, June...
...Mulct's Holiday. A first-class slapstick comedy, partly in French, explaining how not to take a vacation (TIME June...
...Mulct's Holiday. A first-class slapstick comedy, partly in French, explaining how not to take a vacation (TIME, June...
...Mulct's Holiday. A slight comedy, partly in French, explaining how not to take a vacation (TIME, June...