Word: slobbing
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...Training of a Slob. From the age of six, putty-brained little Philip was trained on Greek, Latin and the great books. At 14, he was sent Grand Touring for five years. In a chain of letters, the earl alternately lashed the boy into study and lectured him on the art of being worldlywise. "For God's sake, my dear boy, do not squander away one moment of your time ... I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time, that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature...
...Capp, the cartoonist-creator of Li'l Abner, probably has a sharper eye for slobs, monsters, hags and fiends than anyone alive. This means that his eye is very sharp indeed, for the modern slob seldom slobbers and in the 20th Century even monsters are apt to use both Vitalis and Zip, grease themselves liberally with Mum or Dew, and consult a dentist twice a year. Capp is not fooled. At times, in fact, he seems to suspect that the world is peopled exclusively by bloated big businessmen, brainless editors, venal politicians, sadistic cops, cruel stepmothers and shambling, leaping...
...greets her with a frosty, feline smile. Carol loves every bit of it. The only real cloud still left on her horizon is the opinion of her dresser, who once worked for impeccable, ladylike Cornelia Otis Skinner. Says Broadway's new star: "She thinks I'm a slob...
...that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity and eloquence that your antagonist is, forsooth, a beanhead, a booby, a chump, a dingbat, a flumadiddy, a filbert, a peanutbrain, a rednecked slob, a rumdum, a stupe, a tinpot...
...achieved. He had wanted to be a writer, but all that he wrote floundered and failed. In the beginning he was ashamed to be an entertainer: he toured with road shows as Lawrence Griffith. He was stranded in tank towns, fired, overworked and underfed. Between roles, he did slob labor...