Word: shirked
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...Whenever the other rats asked him if he'd like to come out with them, he'd answer "I don't know." And when they said, "do you want to stay at home?" he wouldn't say yes or no either. He'd always shirk making a choice. One day his aunt said to him, "Now look here! No one'll care for you if you carry on like this. You haven't any more mind than a blade of grass." The young rat coughed and looked wise...
...teeth), by an excessively hissing s, by heavy ng sounds (e.g., "making gah" for "making a"); and by closing and diphthongizing certain vowels, so that "ask" sounds like "ay-usk" (or "ay-ust"), and "cough" sounds like "co-uff." The uneducated New Yorker seems to say "shoik" for "shirk" and "cherce" for "choice." Actually he uses the same sound, intermediate between ir and oi, for both words...
Thus considered, the novel is far from fascinating. What gives it its considerable interest is Author Holden's dogged, intelligent exploration of precisely those matters which run-of-the-mine novelists shirk: namely, the ambiguous complexities of even the most "normal" motives and actions. These subtleties and minutiae are themselves the true substance of this story. Lacking entirely the brilliance of the best work in its field, lacking no less the textbook glibness of the cheap work, as a psychological novel, Believe the Heart is definitely to be respected...
...Michigan, the Detroit Newspaper Guild set another precedent when it bought space in the arch-Republican Free Press for a political ad. ''REPORTERS KNOW!" clarioned the Guild. "We have mingled with men and women in the breadlines . . . witnessed big taxpayers' vain attempts to shirk. . . . Frank Murphy MUST Be Re-Elected!" On its front page the Free Press testily explained it had taken the Guild's money only because it believes in freedom of the press, opined that most Detroit newspapermen "are not led by the nose to the ballot box by John Lewis...
...Crane, ss. 4 0 0 Murphy, cf. 4 0 1 Doering, 1b 2 0 0 Levin, p. 2 0 1 Story, c. 3 0 0 Dampeer, 3b. 2 2 0 Stubbs, sc. 1 1 1 Knowlton, 2b. 1 0 0 Finn (*) 0 0 0 Swifts 0 0 0 Shirk, (***) 0 1 0 Kelley, rf. 1 0 0 Mendel, rf. 0 0 0 Viets (**) 1 0 0 25 5 4 KIRKLAND ab r h King c. 3 1 1 Marks p. 4 1 1 Diegel rf., sc. 4 0 1 Mudge, sc. p. 3 0 1 Evers...