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Word: snowjob (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...right arm was slightly crippled at birth, so Pat goes out for the football team and damages his right knee. This test of manhood merely inflames his ego; he enrolls in a creative-writing course. A story about his "true friends" and eccentrically named roommates, David Tall Man and Snowjob Porter, convinces the professor that Pat is a "born writer." But daddy Kingsgrant, a Yankee lawyer with a Park Avenue penthouse and a mind like a safety-deposit box, is not so easily hurdled. Pat scoops up his Brooks Brothers suits and heads for a Manhattan hovel to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Tired Young Men | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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