Word: orneryness
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On her night of triumph, while her sponsors and the losing contestants warmed up at a cocktail party, Mrs. Pollock called her husband to tell him the great news. But Salesman Marion S. Pollock was in an ornery mood. With great abruptness, he told his wife to get her winning...
Florida tourist literature, understandably, keeps pretty mum about this kind of folk, but Novelist Baker claims to have known them all his life and makes out a good case for their being a particularly cussed and ornery lot. Blood of the Lamb is not much of a novel, but it...
His adviser Mike Straus once declared: "He's ornery, hardheaded, the damndest and most unreasonable hotheaded man you ever saw." Ickes, listening eagerly, crowed: "You see?"
with at least a year's weekly experience on news and ads needed badly to assist publisher of good weekly. Prefer gal who is a perfect 36, beautiful, smart, willing to work for $5 a week, interested in weekly papers. Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, white or colored. Because of the...
As Vice President, Johnson was Lincoln's choice and a stanch Lincoln supporter, a fact overlooked by historians who cast him as a villain. Like the members of Franklin Roosevelt's "Janizariat," Johnson was attacked as a whipping boy by Lincoln's enemies. The picture does not...