Word: runts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Stinnes sat in a cell. He did not want to get out. Swindled people wanted to get in−to smash the runt...
...that very afternoon he was so sentimental about Rennie's glossy brown coat and hang-down ears that Tessa, his Russian-temperamental fiancee, bit him on all four legs. Golden Toes had no idea what it was all about and disported himself as usual, taunting his sister, Poppit-"Runt-o! Runt you are!" he would bark-and tumbling over his own ears. But the others were subtly changed-Tessa into a jealous fury; Boris and Kim into love-sick school-puppies. The Legs noticed, and shut Rennie in the goat house, thrashing Kim when he nearly gnawed...
...borne Novelist Owen was doing a Tolstoi. For hero there is a "sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love for him but likes to torture "with the least possible effort...
...Newark, N. J.) to cross the game-infested Campagna (the Jersey flats) and seek his fortune in gaudy Rome (Manhattan). He now recognizes that he was marked for high destiny when President Grant helped him shinny a post to see a horse race; when a supercilious, teasable "Oyster Bay runt" called Teddy Roosevelt told him he was shortsighted and gave him one of his own thick eye-lenses; when he gouged "Bound to rise!" on a shingled steeple, counterfeited tickets to Barnum's circus, made cigar-box labels for Oscar Hammerstein and an aluminum fan for Mrs. Astor...
...having been played by districts (TIME, Sept. 8), the 32 plunged into match play without ado. Fur flew in the second round, when Gene Sarazen, of Briarcliff, N. Y., champion these two years, was suddenly ousted by an "unknown," one Larry Nabholtz, of Lima, Ohio. Nabholtz nabbed "the Grinning Runt" at the 35th green. Bobby Cruickshank, of Shacka-maxon, N. J., shot 69 and 71 in his second round match, yet he, too, was ousted-by Ray Derr of the Lulu Temple Club, Philadelphia, after 37 terrific holes. Thereafter surprises ceased. Sleek, smiling "Walto" Hagen, of Manhattan, British open champion...