Word: ol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles west of the town named after ol' Horace, between Routes 257 and 14, there's a one gas-station village called Severance Inhabited mostly by stockyard workers. Severance would be easily forgettable of it weren't for Bruce...
Young Georges-Marie, 9, has, as his cousin Bienville tartly notes, "more names than Jehovah," among them Moumou, Puss and the Dauphin. This spectrally beautiful, thin, pale child speaks a bewildering mixture of French and "Ol' Kintuck," the hayseed dialect he absorbed during his brief exposure to Governor Davis' three strapping sons: "O, he jest being plain bad. O, il m'echappe toujours!" All the Sioux are holding their breath to see how George takes to Castleton. Armand reassures his brother-in-law: "The Dauphin has a truly terrifying sense of gratitude. You'll be annihilated by it, my poor...
...comfortable with his job: flexible hours, great fringe benefits, plenty of time to include a healthy appetite for golf, good port, and expensive cars. No midlife crisis here-lots of friends, hordes of admirers, all, an adequate hero for a mediocre movie. But Mass Appealgives to this good ol' boys a bizarre twist; rather than spending his morning writing letters to constituents, as we might expect, Farley instead stands at the front of a church and leads a congregation in the Profession of Faith. Timothy Farley is a priest, and a very contented one of Sunday masses, "On the Road...
...Tillman's mother dies, of no visible cause, in her hotel room, petty annoyances assume the dimensions of conspiracy. The black authorities seem determined to find evidence of foul play. The hotel bartender, who hates whites in general and Tillman especially, feels free to slander the dead woman: "Daht ol boney-bag he call his muddah grabbin aht every blahck boy on de beach." As bad feelings spread and red tape unreels, the proprietor must store his mother's body in the kitchen freezer, prompting a walkout by the staff...
Sinatra arrived for rehearsals unprepared for the capital's chill weather. The next morning he was the first customer at the local branch of Brooks Brothers, whose accommodating staff sent Ol' Blue Eyes back outside wearing a new blue coat. It evidently kept the singer more than comfortably warm, especially under his collar. Two days later the Washington Post published a long story noting that not only Sinatra but also Entertainers Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were in town for the Inauguration, and speculating about a rebirth of the infamous, Sinatra-led Rat Pack of the '60s. Approached...