Word: toothpick
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...book is one of those narrative toothpick trees that the '20s musicals utilized only to festoon with girls and dances. The central figure is a near-millionaire Bible publisher, whom Jack Gilford plays with gullible charm. Gilford is a kind of platonic sucker who has been gilding the palms of three avaricious flappers without any amorous return on his investment. He doesn't want his wife (Keeler) to find out about it, and he orders his lawyer (Bobby Van) to buy and bargain his way out of the mess. It all adds up to a kind of microminiature...
...dying at 34-of an acute brain inflammation caused by tuberculosis and aggravated by drink-he was obsessed by that image of death's anarchic joke, a skull and crossbones with its toothy eternal grin. To his last words he was defiantly absurdist: he asked for a toothpick...
...House Committee people gave Bad Boy ten dollars because they thought he was the greasiest guy there. They gave five to Spider because he was second greasiest and the biggest pimp. He smiled, and the toothpick in his mouth swung up, Spider didn't usually smile unless he was picking up a chick or putting a shine to his boots...
Ball on a Toothpick. Chezzie and Michael were nearly dropouts from Farragut High School. But then they enrolled at Farragut Outpost, a school for potential dropouts run by the Better Boys Foundation, a kind of settlement house on the West Side. Says Chezzie: "At Farragut, you ain't learning nothing. You go out and walk around the hallways, and they catch you and bar you from school. Up here at Outpost, you come here because you want to learn. Instead of failing you, if you do work and it's not passing, you do it again until...
...suit on. Everybody comes and says 'What happened, man? They were going to call you,' and I say 'I don't know, they just don't call.' It's just like trying to put a basketball up on top of a toothpick. You don't depend too much...