barm

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Nearly every important American writer�Nabokov, Mailer Barm, Bellow, Malamud, Donleavy, Roth, Friedman, Burroughs, Heller, Pynchon, Willingham�works from an assumption that society is at best malevolent and stupid, at worst wholly lunatic.

From Time Magazine Archive

He confessed to me that in making of Sider, He put's in half as much Mustard as Barm; but never in Meathe.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

James White, a publican who kept the "Pail of Barm" at Bedminster, made a close second in his activity and success.

From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert)

But there came a very black frown upon Lord George's brow, and then even Lady Sarah did not dare to speak again in favour of Miss Barm.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

Miss Barm is a most charming young woman, of excellent manners, admirably educated, if not absolutely handsome, quite of distinguished appearance, and she has forty thousand pounds.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony