Word: railers
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This last is the point of the return of Jimmy's wife, which is motivated less metaphysically by their powerful sexual love. It is hard to imagine any other motivation being sufficiently strong, for Jimmy is a bad lot: a slander-mouthed railer, a malicious, nasty, monstrously selfish barbarian, and a bit of a paranoiac as well. His creator views him with a bracingly cool eye, never veiling him in a romantic haze, never losing his objectivity, explaining but not excusing. Since the author never loses sight of the fact that his hero is a "bloody bastard," the audience...
...addicts jam-packed the Park-from the 40 ? bleacher section reserved for colored folks to the ;ony terrace boxes atop the clubhouse. Everyone talked Stagehand-from Fred Snite Jr., the famed iron lung patient who, with the aid of a periscope and mirrors, watched the races from Ks ambulance railer parked midway down the homestretch, and the sport writer who bet his salary on Stagehand, to Seminole Indians who were lured from their nearby reservation to do a war dance in the infield for Mr. Widener's customers...
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