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...most. "The manner in which Tynan introduces this character," he wrote, "is McCarthy technique at its serpentine suavest. He means to use her the same way a ventriloquist uses a dummy. Tynan is a bully; and true to tradition, he is also a coward. There are some very rotten things he wants to say about me, but he hasn't the guts to come right out and say them himself. Even a man with the morals of a baboon and the guts of a butterfly could not do anything sneakier or more cowardly than that: it would bring...
...knows just when to gentle, just when to press." The thing he does best is stay away: he never goes to rehearsals unless he is asked to, shows confidence even if he doesn't feel it. "But after the out-of-town opening!" he says. "After those first stinking, rotten reviews! Boy, am I ever a bastard! Boy, do I make waves...
...great, great many "dese, dem and dose" types. "Kids," he calls us. Well these "kids" are the happiest in the world. Don't doubt us for a minute. I live in Williamsburg, in an area called "greatly depressed." So my Brooklyn is labeled a rotten slum. I'll spend the rest of my life here-out of choice. Brooklyn is the best damn place in the world. Next time you guys knock Brooklyn, I'll come up there and make you eat your words...
...standards, it was a pretty quiet evening. The night before, Tech had beaten Minnesota 5-1 (winning a handsome trophy in the process), and Houghtonians celebrated that by storming the Douglas House hotel and stealing the fire extinguishers. Opposing players have been bombarded with everything from raw eggs to rotten fish, and the wife of Tech's president was so carried away at one game last year that she hit her husband in the eye, smashing his glasses...
...season's record of 23 wins, five losses and a tie, Tech played one last game-against Michigan State, a team it already had beaten twice before at Houghton. Only this time the game was in East Lansing, Mich. No nickels, dimes and firecrackers, no raw eggs and rotten fish. The arena was even heated. The homesick Huskies lost...