Word: unhousebroken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holly is the heroine of the long title story in this four-story collection and the hottest kitten ever to hit the typewriter keys of Truman (The Muses Are Heard) Capote. Her unhousebroken style of life has already barred her from the intellectual drawing room of Harper's Bazaar, whose editors bought the story but did not print it. Holly is really more to be pitied than censored, more waifish than raffish, a bad little good girl, alone and a little afraid in a lot of beds she never made...
...side of the curtain, please, and the gentlemen on the other. Wives may stand with their husbands.") Following the colonel himself past the animal cages was an olfactory experience. Living in a trailer with Devil, the two-nosed dog, a spider monkey named Snowball, and a dark, unhousebroken Capuchin named Herman can dose a man with strange scents as the weeks pass...
...alcoholic street singer, a kind of turn-of-the-century Bing Crosby ("Boo-boobooboo-boo"). And there is Grandma from Sweden who chews pipe dottle and comes to Denmark fully intending to die, but lives on to plague and embarrass the boy's mother with her unhousebroken back-country habits...
...knew for sure about him is that he is married to a granddaughter of the late John D. Rockefeller. The marquise, 61, spends most of her time these days lying abed and munching chocolates, leaving her husband the marquis, 68, to his parties, his ballet and his eleven white (unhousebroken) Pekingese...