Word: bitches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Bret Harte had many admirers and almost no friends. Mark Twain, who respected Harte's work, called the author a coward, a liar, a swindler, a thief, a snob, a sot, a born loafer and a son of a bitch. When autograph hounds enclosed return postage in their letters, it is said that Harte used the stamps to pay his overdue butcher's bill. He was an instant success at 32, and at his prime was the most popular author the U.S. had ever known. Yet, though he sold everything he wrote and his collected writing fills...
...deprived of jurisdiction in cases. The Appeals Court ruled in one of these cases that Chandler showed "personal enmity, hostility, and prejudice" toward the executives of the Occidental Petroleum Co., calling them collectively "shady characters, pirates, vultures," and had singled out one of them as a "son of a bitch." He had accused a fellow U.S. District Court judge of "spitting in my face," and expressed fear that the water in his carafe was poisoned...
...give-a-damn patriot hustles messages back and forth, so ludicrous a target that a thundering German tank blasts him only with derision. At one point, he joins a long line of evacuees and is forced to shoulder household goods for a peasant woman, a greedy "old bitch" who makes him buy the stuff...
Malcolm. The quest for a father, the spectral son, the possessive bitch-mother, the world as supreme castrater -these are themes, roles and patterns that have obsessed Edward Albee from the days of The Sandbox and The American Dream to Virginia Woolf and Tiny Alice. In this adaptation of James Purdy's novel Malcolm, he finds all his own vintage wines in another man's cellar. The trouble is that these wine bottles are now empty, and the wind whistles over them all evening with a low, monotonous, deadly moan...
When John V. Lindsay became Mayor of New York City on January 1, the strike deadline laid down by the Transport Workers was only five hours away and negotiations had already been broken off. Twelve days later, Wall Street businessmen are still bitch-hiking to work, and garment center laborers aren't getting to their jobs...