Word: squawkings
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...summer camp to work as a waiter. Among other curiosa, the camp boasts a sullen horse that looks like Robert Ryan, and children who have "the faces of middle-aged manufacturers." He makes sad love to a girl camper who when her breasts are caressed emits a horrendous squawk like a "sudden plumbing defect in a far-off house at midnight." When his last college application is turned down, Joseph consoles himself by rifling the lockers of the other waiters and, being Joseph, gets caught...
...could be done for him, and even less that he could do for himself, as he lay in an overheated room, apprehensive and overly aware of all that was going on around him. The hospital sounded like the lower decks of a battleship. The corridors were a babel of squawk boxes, counterpointed by the gun-mount rumble of food carts, the depth-charge banging of slammed doors. Though some of his nurses were ministering an gels, Hodgins laments the modern hospital's chronic shortage of hands. "In the old days," he says, "a patient put on his light...
Feathers & Squawk. In Kensett, Ark., where Mills grew up, his father was one of the most prosperous men in town, owner of a busy country store that sold everything from horehound drops to horse collars. (Mills's mother, 77, still helps run the store.) Later on, Ardra Mills acquired a cotton gin and an interest in the local bank. Wilbur worked in the store during his boyhood, but early in life he was struck with awed admiration of William A. Oldfield, the bouncy, genial Congressman from the district. In his travels around his constituency, Oldfield frequently visited Kensett and stopped...
Stahlman: I have called you on my office phone with the squawk box on, so that my administrative assistant, my editor and my legal counsel can hear what transpires between...
...agent's mid-Manhattan office window and remark casually. "Why, there's King Kong sitting on top of the Seagram Building. He's crying. Someone should have told him they don't make buildings the way they used to." Out of the squawk box on the agent's desk comes the brassy voice of Chuckles the Chipmunk (Gene Saks) to put the whammy on Murray's whimsy. The ensuing duel between man and machine may be the only known instance in which a squawk box lost a decision. In the final uproarious act Chuckles...