Word: orneryness
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Few adults are sufficiently strong-fibered to watch these last two shows : Pinky Lee is an ex-burlesque comic who wears a funny hat and lisps a succession of feeble jokes (Sample: "You mean I've got to be a spy?" "Don't mince words." "Oh -a mince...
Ornery Suns. The thing on the top of Billy's mind was what lay on the bottom of his stomach. "Boys," said a sergeant to his men one day. "I was eating a piece of hardtack this morning, and I bit on something soft; what do you think it...
The military training didn't bother Billy too much ("Drill, drill, a little more drill. Then drill, and lastly drill. Between drills we drill . . ."), and the discipline was generally not too severe. In battle, Billy proved his salt. He did not have the dash and gallantry of Author Wiley...
Patients admitted with such severely weakened muscles that they could not turn their heads or sit up soon began to move about and sit up in bed. Just as striking, the doctors report, was the change in the patients' disposition. Many, including babies, who had been irritable and ornery...
As the magazine grew and became hugely successful, such anecdotes of life in The New Yorker office became the talk of the town. By insiders, its success was attributed not only to the ornery talents of its contributors but also to Ross's "thousands and thousands of tiny prejudices...