Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Side Key Club; for a mackinawed Dakota farmer back in 1906, it was a dinner at the old Saratoga Hotel, where after ordering a fancy city dish called oysters on the half shell, he devoured the oysters and then crunched through the shells. But though Chicago, in its own sullen and grimy way, has afforded millions of conventioneers a variety of pleasures, its convention facilities have grown woefully inadequate over the years. Last week the city solved that problem with the opening of a brand-new hall, the $35 million lakefront McCormick Place, "larger than the Circus Maximus of ancient...
...inward weeping set off by a breath of perfume from a bathroom cabinet, or the sudden spaciousness of his bed. Then, wallowing in his sadness, Berman turns on everyone who offers comfort. Even his married daughter, who tries to mother him, is stung by his quick, aimless angers, his sullen preference for the inanities of television instead of the company of friends and family. And though Berman himself is bewildered, he has no words with which to explain, no grace with which to apologize. He begins to rage against God. Toward the end of his long season in hell...
...Town. In his own way, sullen, brooding Virgil Earp was plenty good to the woman he considered his wife. (Among other bits of Earpiana, Waters has discovered that Virgil and Allie never bothered with a wedding.) But over and over again, Allie's few belongings were packed into a Studebaker wagon as Virgil drifted west from Council Bluffs to Tombstone, where he joined forces with the rest of the Earp clan...
...when Mantle's game goes sour, he turns sullen in self-disgust. Says Cleveland General Manager Frank Lane: "Trouble with Mantle is, he's fighting himself. He'll go zero for three and then look miserable on a fly ball because he's brooding." When Mantle is down, the boos begin to rumble throughout Yankee Stadium even before he steps into the batter's box. Mantle hears every catcall, fools no one when he shrugs: "These people don't know what the hell they're booing...
...tracks. They all had special names: the narrator is "Little D." to "Muv," and "Decca" to the rest of the world. They even had a private language, examples of which are merci lessly given. It is all very charming at first, but less so when Decca and Boud (big, "sullen," "baleful" Unity) get past the hair-pulling stage and make the big world their playroom. Boud took to scratching swastikas on the window (she had a diamond, of course), and Decca just naturally scratched hammer-and-sickles over them...