Word: stinkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eventually teen-aged Paul, who thinks Dad is a stinker, pays his first visit to the gaming tables and sees Dad give a demonstration of character. Coolly and courteously, Gable stakes the entire family fortune on a throw of dice-and wins. That is enough for Paul. As a couple of gunmen close in on the swag, Paul springs to his father's side, a true blue chip off the old block...
...with us a Negro boy, Tad McKinley. (But Tad is expelled a week before his graduation for making love to his girl at Spring Prom.) Happily, our new Council President is a fine lad, Buddy Brown; we're sure Buddy will do a fine job. (Buddy is a little stinker, but we treat him kindly because his father is a Very Influential...
...need to. Lots of them try to pump me to find out who's going to be fired and who's going to get hired." She winked. "I just act dumb." At a fashion show last week, she blurted to reporters: "Did you hear the news-that stinker Forrestal's out? My man Johnson...
Mother Hubbard is a gentle creature-all she does is to furnish son Ben with a blackmailing stranglehold on his tyrannical father. Son Oscar is just a born ninny; he tries hard to be a stinker but he hasn't the talent. But the other three would make a quarrelsome day in a bear pit look insipid. Now & then, as they shift grips on each other and set-to all over again, their unmitigated hellishness comes very near absurdity. But they are never undramatic...
Sneath kept trying. To the master of another distinguished school he wrote: "You will doubtless remember old Tubby Sneath-well, it will give you a helluva shock, you old bounder, because last year I took the headship here . . . Listen, Stinker, quite seriously, Selhurst is having a beano for its 300th anniversary on June 19. Could you come down, old boy, and give us a sermon on the Sunday?" Returned the headmaster's secretary, on the distinguished man's behalf: "Obviously not meant...