Word: toad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exception was Carmine Guarino, nicknamed "the Toad." Like Silvio, Carmine had been born to poverty, but he had found escape along another road, by burying his nose in books until his eyes dimmed and his skin grew waxen with the pallor of lamplight. Carmine's studies brought him no money, but they helped make him a schoolmaster and a politician, full of respect for the ordered and privileged past and contempt for illiterate successes such as that of Silvio...
...Toads & Bloodworms. But at the same time he finds villainy of all kinds wildly entertaining. He is convinced that man's inhumanity to man-whether expressed in a simple hotfoot or an atomic explosion- is the basis of all humor, and he can discuss grafters, murderers and wife-beaters as delightedly as a zoologist describing a sporty specimen of toad or bloodworm. Capp is a large-framed, large-headed, exuberant man with a shock of black hair, bottomless energy and a bullfrog voice. He often climaxes a denunciation of some awful piece of skulduggery by bursting into ribald laughter...
...neither a fool with a frozen smile, Nor a sad old toad in a cask of bile; He can dance with a shoe nail in his heel, And never a sign of his pain reveal...
...read some of Chambers' writing, particularly noting Chambers' use of imagery (e.g., "Like a toad in a pool of petroleum"). All images, explained Dr. Murray, "are vehicles of thought in dreaming and fantasy." He had found other "indefinable qualities [of psychopathy] that experts recognize. It's like tasting absinthe in a Daiquiri . . . Some people can taste it and some people...
Ichabod and Mr. Toad. The dull spots in this doubleheader are enlivened by some fresh Walt Disney creations; with Bing Crosby and Basil Rathbone on the sound track (TIME...