Word: tite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McGovern suffered a football injury in his senior year; Anderson said he had also given up any idea of the boy being Yale material academically. However, the boy and a friend, Ralph Tite indicated they still wanted to apply for Yale, Tite, Anderson points out, was small, as far as football was concerned...
...Milk Run. Whatever the world at large may have thought of Oscar Wilde after his prolonged and sordid trials for sodomy, to young Cyril and Vyvyan Wilde he was a fine father. The greatest figures of pre-Raphaelite London were constant visitors at the house in Tite Street, Chelsea, where Wilde, wittiest and most elegant of them all, held court with his beautiful wife Constance. But it was not the distinguished company that made the house a delight to the young Wildes; it was "the smiling giant, always exquisitely dressed, who crawled about the nursery floor with us and lived...
John Singer Sargent, standing at the easel in his studio on London's Tite Street, used to mutter, "Gainsborough would have done it!" But in his heart he knew he was no Gainsborough. What Sargent had in abundance was a capacity for flattering his sitters in paint, and naturally they flocked to him. He complained that "portrait painting is a pimp's profession," and late in life he swore off it. "No more paughtraits," he wrote triumphantly to a friend. "I abhor and abjure them and hope never to do another, especially of the Upper Classes...
...hero is Sid Sorokin, late of Chicago and Regal Pants Inc. Sid is plant superintendent for Sleep Tite now, and Sleep Tite (the Pa jama for Men of Bedroom Discrimination) is booming. The trouble is that the union is demanding a 7½-cents-an-hour raise, and pulling a' slowdown to get it. Sid's problem is complicated by the fact that his boss, Mr. Hasler, is determined not to knuckle under to the union, while Sid's girl, redheaded Babe Williams, is one of the union ringleaders...
...taken down on a recorder. ("Oh my god last week he went to Dr. Baumer and what do they find but a zist on the gooms. He couldn't hardly eat no Sunday dinner. A nice goose I had, too.") Sid Sorokin gets fed up and quits Sleep Tite. taking his luscious redhead with him, but the exact resolution of the plot isn't really important to Author Bissell or anyone else. It is the natural talk, the sure feeling for the pace of Midwestern life, the shrewd humor of such scenes as the union picnic, that make...