Word: shrewish
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...word jockey's favorite topic: women. Baiting them-as shrewish, lazy, selfish-is his technique for keeping them tuned in and writing 1,500 letters a week. An expert on the subject after five marriages, Gibson says: "Women are really happiest when they are being abused. It's impossible to keep a woman comfortable and happy at the same time. I've lost more wives that way. I throw the verbal stones and the women lick their wounds and lie back in ecstasy." Sample stone: "Nothing makes a woman look more like a bag than wearing...
...should speak with more elegance. Evelyn Ward is attractive as the maidservant Nicole, but seems a little too cultured; and Gail Garnett, as Jourdain's daughter Lucille, is not cultured enough and speaks too softly--maybe these two should have swapped roles. Dee Victor, as Jourdain's shrewd and shrewish wife, needs a great deal more force...
...weak President.' Now that the President's social conscience is beginning to bother him, the harlots of journalism are screaming." More realistically, the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill thought that "Mr. Eisenhower's usually sugar-sweet press support is here and there becoming shrewish," but only because the press "failed from the beginning by setting up an impossible climate of perfection," and because "some elements of the so-called G.O.P. press were never really...
...future dottiness as screaming, "View Halloo!" at morning prayers and greeting oak trees as old friends in Windsor Park. Queen Charlotte and her eldest son were already jockeying for power as Regent. Prinney threaded a delicate path between the beckonings of his secret wife and his demanding and increasingly shrewish mistress. Caroline publicly boasted of her taste in "bedfellows," and soon turned up with an "adopted" son called "Willikins" who was widely said to be her own. "Prove it and he shall be your King!" she would shout in gleeful rejoinder to this charge. Restless and roistering by nature...
...confusingly as possible. An astute reader can, however, find the ends of most of them. Amid the confusion, one discovers the inevitable Buechler story, which is typically Buechler, just as this Advocate is typically Advocate. As always Buechler concerns himself with a domestic problem which includes a shrewish mother; he narrates his story with a loose and distinctly Buechlerian style, which stumbles only occasionally. He provides a few charming touches with his description of a boy's dreams of glory on his way to school. But in doing so, he destroys the unity of his initial plot, which doesn...