Word: pokerful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...motel, actually. He is forbidden serious "intrapersonal or doctrinal" conversation, non-escapist reading material, and the Word of God as set down in Holy Scriptures (Marshfield doesn't miss the irony of his situation--who ever heard of a motel without Bibles?) His nights are to be devoted to poker, his days to golf. (You have to imagine that his motel is situated in a large oasis.) Above all, and this is where the real expiation comes in. Marshfield must spend his mornings writing on a topic of his own choosing. A sort of keyboard confessional, and a sort...
...this non-communication, this ability to exploit the community with a poker face, that the Wilson report attacked. Sensing the anxiety that boiled in residents as they were led from the old Office of Civic and Government Relations to the Planning Office to the Real Estate Office, whenever they wanted simple answers concerning the wrecking machines about to rip into their houses, the Wilson report recommended that a vice president for external affairs be appointed to establish community policy and answer directly to neighborhood queries. Wilson points out today that this suggestion was later incorporated...
...ways, though he had treasured his Middle Western accent. He was a mixture of pixiness and earnestness, very much at home in Italian literature, especially Dante, as well as the fine points of handicapping horses. He was an owl; he stayed up late, talking, reading or playing poker...
...Thomas Marshfield, 41, begins fleecing the ewes. When his trysts with the church organist and other assorted supplicants are exposed, Marshfield is shipped West for a month's rest to a desert spa for troubled clergymen. The regimen is ecumenical. There is golf in the afternoon, poker at night and daiquiris whenever. Mornings are spent alone at an obligatory typewriter, where orgies of therapeutic confession are the order...
...Happiness. 58. Richard Whitney; the New York Stock Exchange. 59. Sing Sing Prison; embezzlement. 60. "How long will it take and how much will it cost?" 61. Wealthy people should have multiple votes. 62. Samuel Insull. The testimony of bankrupt stockbrokers--but he was acquitted anyway. 63. In a poker game. 64. Riding freight cars. 65. Henry Ford II. 66. Buy stocks. 67. John D. Rockefeller. 68. Jojn D. Rockefeller. 69. American big business. 70. Dsitributing dimes among children. 71. He disapproved of the picture of Lenin. 72. He observed that the average Arab oil country makes more...