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...sweet-smelling show-business variety of latter days. He was literally ''wild and woolly and full of fleas/And seldom curried below the knees." Instead of skintight pants and store-boughten fumadiddle. he wore a pair of wide "hair pants." cut straight off the cow. He stank of bear grease and was usually crawling with "pants rats," as he called his lice. He slept with whores and Indian squaws, because there weren't many other women around, and whenever he got the chance, he got bear-eatin' drunk, because the rest of the time life had little...
Jimmy Thach lived airplanes. He was an ace test pilot, flew patrol duty in the Aleutians in Martin PBM-15 ("The bearskin flying suits stank like hell"), catapulted off a turret top of the cruiser U.S.S. Cincinnati in SOC-15, patrolled the Canal Zone in PBYs. Stationed in San Diego in the 19305, Thach met and married Madalyn Jones (they have two sons, John Jr., an experimental psychologist, and William Leland, about to enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them...
...Kilroy Was Here is an evocative, semi-autobiographical prowl among the littered streets and crumbling tenements of Farrell's boyhood on Chicago's South Side. Tart as melting aspirin on the tongue, it lives up to its tag line, "Kilroy was here but left because the place stank." A Baptism in Italy takes a tender look at a beat-up Italian writer-revolutionary who is punchdrunk from too many rounds in a concentration camp. He rouses himself to play gracious host to a sympathetic pair of visiting Americans, and is bitterly hurt to find that they regard...
When De Sapio seized the leadership of Tammany Hall in 1949, he found himself in command of a rotten, rat-infested political hulk. From its days of corrupted power, Tammany stank. It exacted a heavy price in public money and civic decency for a service. To New York, as to many another U.S. city in the period 1820-1920, came immigrants by the thousands and by the tens and hundreds of thousands-Irish driven by famine, Italians by population pressures, Jews by persecutions. These were not all or mostly the brave or the gallant; many were the fearful, the rootless...
...interesting reading, Douglas plowed onward: "A land of sowbelly and segregation-it stinks." By the time the show had rolled on to Atlanta, Actor Douglas was trying to get his foot out of his mouth, succeeded only in jamming it in farther. It was not the entire South that stank-just Greensboro. Then, after making it clear that his pet peeve is "to be misquoted by newspaper people," Douglas hopefully murmured that he'd heard that "the people of Atlanta are very friendly...