Word: uppityness
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"He's as unconcerned as an old plow horse," said his groom. "He's shy and aloof, and at times he can be a bit uppity, but he can afford to be, now that he is a star." He certainly got star treatment; so that he would not...
When the firemen round up The Phantom on Pony-Penning Day, there is a dividend-a beautiful white foal named Misty. Paul and Maureen rush to buy the pair with the $102.40 that they have saved up. But they are too late; The Phantom and Misty have been sold. Sensitive...
high hig-uppity girl
Garden District comprises two Tennessee Williams plays laid in New Orleans. Something Unspoken, dealing with an uppity society woman and her secretary-companion, is a warm-up piece that leaves the spectator cold. Suddenly Last Summer is a vivid display of Williams' unique virtues and persisting excesses. A kind...
Gable was a Yankee sea captain in the "nigger business." but has now repented of his slave-trading ways, and settled down as a Spanish-mossbacked Southern gentleman whose vassals are so happy that they all mass by ol' man river to sing hallelujah whenever Gable's steamboat...