Word: orneryness
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Sometimes Harold Ickes gets wistful, wonders why he is nobody's sweetheart. Said he recently: "I'm not a backslapper. I'm not a popular man and I know it. ... I'm short-tempered. I don't want yes-men around me. . . . I'm...
To New York matchmakers, Lew Jenkins described himself as an "ornery cuss," was finally given a chance on a Tuesday-night card in Long Island City's Queensboro Arena. He won his first fight, his second, his third. By the time he had won six in a row, New...
>Two ornery rivals go partners on a stump-sucking, tobacco-chewing, rum-drinking mule, bedevil each other for 30 years by further corrupting the mule in ways that will cause most trouble to the other.
Playwright Regan's East-Side saga obeyed every rule. Mama was widowed and warmhearted. One daughter, on the eve of her wedding, perished in a sweatshop fire. Another daughter married a gay blade who carried on with other women. The only son was killed making the world safe for...
In the 1860s, where the Wolf and the Obey (pronounced obee) Rivers run together to make the Cumberland, Billy Hull moved with his bride, a Virginia girl named Elizabeth Riley, whose family had some Cherokee blood. Billy walked with a sidewise slouch. Even after he was rich he was "an...