Word: wallop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Author Wallop starts with the old yet not indefensible notion that monogamy is the ideal rather than the natural state of man. But he might have given his story the bite of reality if he had teethed on anything but slick paper...
...SUNKEN GARDEN, by Douglass Wallop (254 pp.; Norton; $3.50), spins this sudsy question in the novelistic washer: Will the seven-year itch spoil the successful marriage of Tom Forester, boy adman? Author Wallop is noted for his 1954 crystal-gazing novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (later the hit musical Damn Yankees), in which he showed how the Devil, with an assist from a Washington Senator outfielder, could raise hob in a baseball stadium; now he shows how the devil in the flesh complicates family life in the Madison Avenue...
...then she may sit down with a blues-loving customer and talk; her stories pack almost as much wallop as her songs. When she was six or seven in New Orleans, Lizzie recalls, she started to sing with the band jointly run by Kid Ory and King Oliver - songs with words like Don't do that dance, I tell you, Sadie That's no dance for a lady...
...that speed, the sled's metal wind screen will be blown clear, and air blast will wallop Stapp with the same destructive force that would hit a pilot bailing out at 40,000 ft. and 2,000 m.p.h...
...What's Happening?" The memory of the drink was not enough for Columnist Delaplane. One night at San Francisco's Buena Vista bar, he showed the bartender how to make Irish coffee.* The drink that Columnist Delaplane mixed (and reported in his column), packed a wallop felt far from San Francisco...