Word: wallower
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...laughing or lascivious matter. It was like the most respectable Christian marriage, only a great deal more so. None of the women bore it contentedly; and Abijah, on his first night back from a journey, confided to his diary: "I return like the sow to the wallow...
Bruce Barton. Tall, impressively flat-waisted in the House's wallow of paunches, his auburn hair attractively wavy, an honest apple-cheeked smile, Mr. Barton, 53, seems the epitome of the wholesome U. S. businessman. If the 1928 cry for a businessman in the White House (Herbert Hoover) should be revived, Mr. Barton's candidacy would be even more obvious...
...just a Childe Harolde to me. Just how old does one get in thirty-eight years, anyway? At the risk of being an un-American, defeatist influence, I don't want faith restored to me. You just stay over in the Elysian fields where you belong, and let me wallow my poor benighted way through Hell. Yours very cordially, Pro Bono Publico...
...Salem in frock coat and stovepipe on a mule, cuts his own hair, thrums a jews-harp, halts a lynching of his first clients with the argument that the mob is trying to do him out of his first retainer. He wins a tug-of-war against the Hog Wallow boys by hitching the anchor loop of the rope to a wagon, dances with Mary Todd, generally establishes himself as a capable, dryly humorous, lonely citizen. Then the trial takes over, for three reels of howling prairie jurisprudence, wry Lincoln homespun and Hollywood crossexamination. Only at the fade...
...under a pall of rank smoke for three weeks, officials of a dozen east coast Florida cities met last week in Fort Lauderdale to discuss what they could do about a major catastrophe. Fires-some of them presumably started by alligator hunters burning grass around their quarry's wallow-had swept more than 1,000,000 acres east and south of Lake Okeechobee. The burned area included 154,000 acres of rich muck and peatlands which nature was centuries in laying down and which expensive drainage systems were installed to make arable. Down through the sawgrass and palmetto flats...