Word: swears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before his pseudonym and wearing a monocle. Yet Irving traces his origins back to a Budapest ghetto, where deHory started life as Elemere Hoffman. Irving claims that Elmyr's fakes hang in prestigious museums all over Europe and America, but the so-called experts insist not. Others swear up and down that deHory signed the paintings he forged, making their sale illegal; the charming counterfeiter (no doubt at his lawyer's behest) denies the charge. The testimony conflicts like crazy...
Fancy Stick. Many players swear by their new racquets. New Jersey Insurance Executive James Slote has bought five different racquets during the past two years and finally settled on the outsized Prince, which promises a sweet spot 3½times that of normal racquets. Says Slote: "I hit more shots solidly. I'm very satisfied with it. Besides, the big thing is confidence. You do better with a racquet you have confidence in." Last week, after trying a friend's new Pancho Segura "SweetSpot"−notable for its wider spacing between strings near the rim than...
Bloody Fool. "I think I've been a bloody fool," admits Sir Hugh. He described the stock exchange report as fair and vowed to swear off roulette. But he has fought to stay on the company's board by threatening to put his 36% stock ownership up for sale if shareholders move against him. At parties, Fraser appears to be making a joke of the whole affair. He sang and danced two weeks ago at a gathering near his Scotland home in Drymen, Stirlingshire, and led guests in choruses of The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte...
Lyndon Johnson used to swear that when he caught cold the stock market automatically fell five points...
Beginning with what he calls the Hypocritic Oath ("I swear by Midas, my malpractice insurance, the A.M.A..."), Berman lets nary a branch of his calling escape his splenetic pen. To the vanishing, often bungling general practitioner, he says: "Good riddance." His definition of what he believes surgeons regard as a "reasonable" fee: "All that the traffic can bear." Psychiatry, he says, has lately been "lit by rare flashes of brilliance such as transactional analysis and fornication therapy." As for pediatricians, he asks: "What kind of intellect opts to spend the better part of its professional life with diaper rash...