Word: snot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to the story, a big-snot lawyer who had just wrested a favorable decision from the judge was once asked why his case had been a success. Tired from a long day in court, he curtly replied, "One doesn't have to explain why one wins...
...instead they gave it a permanent irritability. His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen. He was, almost literally, raised in the family sickroom, in a dreadful atmosphere of whispers, enforced silences, vomit, snot and the cold stink of carbolic acid...
...adjusting to what struck him as a strangely proletarian Harvard. Not that he had no sympathy for the working class--Carlo's father was an electrician who worked for the union and made good money, but not good enough that he could throw it away on his son's snot-nosed college unless there was a damn good reasons. But there was a good reason. Carlo's father, a leathery-faced Sicilian immigrant named Luigi--call him Lou--wanted his son to grow up to be a cultured gentleman, to smoke cigars and read good books. Lou knew...
...John Wayne, who has been drilling Hollywood bad guys for nearly 50 years, showed up in Chicago last week and defended his brand of movie gunplay. "I've shot as many people on-screen as anybody, but I haven't shot them - like they do today - with snot running out of my nose, sweating and with my pants torn open," said Big John in an interview with Chicago Tribune Film Critic Gene Siskel. Still, isn't all that homicide harmful to younger fans? "I'll explain it abc, kindy-god-dam-garden for you. Children...
...small town newspapers criticized me," Wolff said, "because they felt that here was this patronizing, condescending Harvard snot who's coming down hard on their kids. But that really wasn't the case. Baseball in the minors was a huge thrill for me, and the book resulted more from all the time on my hands than anything else...