Word: shiftlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hutterites so fertile? Their religious doctrine encourages large families, and they shun contraceptives. In the prosperous Hutterite communities, even the shiftless are cared for; no father wor ries about supporting nine or ten children or keeping up with the Joneses. Moreover, most Hutterites marry for keeps; since 1875 there has been only one Hutterite divorce...
Public Enemy and Little Caesarare gems of toughness. James Cagney and Edward Robinson attack the problem of being mean and shiftless cancers on the social body with little reserve and less delicacy. Instead, they set patterns of tough-man acting that have haunted their subsequent careers. Cagney is the cocky bantam hoodlum, swaggering and posturing, with words dropping from the side of his mouth in chunks and gushes. His favorite stance is with one hand grasping a terrified speak-easy proprietor by the shirt front while two fingers of the other hand are poised to jab out stricken eyes. Robinson...
...book, he can afford to be tolerant, promiscuous, and amused by the battle of the pigments. "Goo-goo, my high-color belle," he cries, tossing his little daughter Sylvia to the ceiling. "Where do you come into the picture? What's your rating?" Ostracized in her bedroom, shiftless mother Russell sits interminably over her Singer sewing machine and gossips with her "dark" friends about the latest scandalous marriage, in words that read like a Guiana parody of Pride and Prejudice...
Nevertheless, it was a stranger, a shiftless young wayfarer named Jean Sigot, who offered Farmer Talabard a way out of his difficulty. A jobless 19-year-old who had scraped acquaintance with Marie at another dance,. Jean magnanimously offered to marry Marie in return for work and a permanent home at the Talabard farm. Old Pierre leaped at the offer, and the pair were married in April...
...actively evil, but merely weak, his wife has retreated into a cocoon of neuroses. His brother-in-law is a shiftless drunk who pretends he can write, and his journalist daughter is a loveless prig. Sands's first homosexual buddy, a stage designer, has left him for a theatrical producer. His second, a young bookshop manager, is in the clutch of a possessive mother. Bernard Sands feels superior to the shoddy lot until he sees a fellow homosexual dragged away by the police-and suddenly feels ready to side with the law and "join the hounds in the kill...