Word: mutton
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...said I could use substitute words as a crutch, but advised employing a more positive, invective-free attitude. He suggested using shoot as a sort of cussing patch for the first few weeks. Finding shoot too embarrassing, I decided to go with two Civil War-era favorites, dandisprat and mutton-thumper, both of which could have been included in Jefferson Davis' comedy routine, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Whatever People Did Before Television." But in general, O'Connor says, such words aren't necessary. "If you wanted to say I saw the most fabulous f'-in' game...
DOLLY Cloned lamb is turning to mutton prematurely. Old, rich rams now refuse to date...
...weird murals--Pre-Raphaelite throwbacks with overtones of realist modeling--depicting The Triumph of Religion for the Boston Public Library. But Sargent the public artist was never much good. His big commissioned war painting, Gassed, 1919, is full of compassion and even nobility but is dead as mutton...
...painting of the Titanic, purchased in England decades ago, was worthless, the menu pasted on the back was an original from a last meal on the ship, worth close to $100,000. (It had been owned by the son of a surviving crew member. The doomed dined on grilled mutton chops...
DIED. BILL MONROE, 84, singer, mandolin virtuoso and father of bluegrass music; in Springfield, Tennessee. Distinguished by the mutton-chop sideburns and chiseled demeanor that gave him the aura of a patriarch from another century, Monroe was one of those rare artists who sired a musical genre. In 1938 he formed his first band, calling it the Blue Grass Boys after his home state, Kentucky. The group soon took on the bluegrass configuration of mandolin, fiddle, guitar, bass and banjo, paired with the near-falsetto harmonies that Monroe called his "high, lonesome sound." Bluegrass lives on across the country, including...