Word: wallower
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...gave the tart-tongued daughter of Theodore Roosevelt two jars of Iranian caviar, Nixon indiscreetly confided that it was a gift "from the Shah to Pat and from Pat to you." Advised by the President to "eat it with a spoon," the irrepressible Mrs. Longworth replied: "I'll wallow in it"-an allusion to Nixon's celebrated comment: "Let others wallow in Watergate." Asked later about the party, Nixon's Watergate resentments surfaced in an attack on the press...
...agree with him at all. He's the one who created the wallow and who keeps us in it. He leaves the impression that somehow Congress created this wallow. We didn't create it--we're trying to get the nation out of it. One way to do that is to get Mr. Nixon out of office...
...wallowing in Watergate: "He (Nixon) leaves the impression that somehow Congress created this wallow. We didn't create it--we're trying to get the nation out of it. One way to do that is to get Mr. Nixon out of office...
From The Ginger Man on, J.P. Donleavy's novels have been simultaneously cruel, sentimental, repetitive and sporadically funny. Donleavy heroes are ridiculous figures who wallow in self-pity behind their mannered fronts and anesthetize deep personal hurts with sex and alcohol. Like Cornelius Treacle Christian, the errant knight in tweed armor of A Fairy Tale of New York, Donleavy's people move around a lot-"Moving all the time," says Christian, "hoping for a master stroke of solace somewhere...
Most Harvard students, I would say, are coopted. Those who are already members of Brahmin society stay there. Those just beneath jump at the opportunity to wear club ties, to wallow in the comfortable life...