Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of Author Faulkner's puns are better than others. Random sample: a horse which its owner could no longer afford to keep in the stall to which it was accustomed. In the wise-crackling dialog which makes up 90% of the book, even the heavy hero is allowed to say. when his mistress asks him if theirs was a case of love at first sight: "No, I had to look twice to believe my eyes...
...young men of the ghetto. One day a gentile woman on her way through the ghetto paused to give a child a piece of candy. Instantly the ingelach (little boys) and mädelach (little girls) swarmed around her, squawling for candy. A pious Jew stopped in the narrow, stall-lined street, looked into her face, then shouted, "Don't eat the gentile candy. It's poisoned...
...Manhattan's Washington Market unemployed artists found a vacant meat stall, started an art sale. When market patrons showed interest only in one drawing, a nudist colony at play, the artists veiled the picture, sold peeps at a penny apiece. Market Director Aloysius Mallo appeared, took one perquisite peek popped: "Put that away or I'll put you out. That's too hot for my customers, I'll tell the world...
...Buffalo, N. Y. autoworker named Clayton Woods bought an Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket on Gregalach in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. When Gregalach came in second, Clayton Woods was richer by $886,360. Cried he: "I'll buy that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet stall."* To most newspaper readers, stories like Clayton Woods's are of lively interest. Nonetheless, it looked for a time as if the U. S. Press might not be allowed to print this most familiar form of human interest feature. After the Derby of 1931, when more stories about lottery...
...Instead of buying Gregalach a velvet stall, Clayton Woods retired, bought himself a Canadian summer cottage, a fine house near Buffalo, where he was living last week. How much money he has left, he refuses to say. He often visits the factory where his old friends work, owns a shabby car in which he goes on solitary hunting trips. *His hasenpfeffer: Use cottontail rabbits. Chop meat into quarters. Put meat in pickling and leave for three days. Cut onions in small pieces and put them in pan until they are golden brown. Add flour. Brown the meat in separate...