What is "maxton"

Usage examples of "maxton".

Now Mike's hot off his latest world-record jump over -- I don't know -- fifty fish bowls of piranhas or something, and Maxton -- whose own popularity is fizzling -- leans over the railing and shouts, 'Hey Mr.

Behind him is a contingent from the now defunct Maxton Elder Care: the lovely Alice Weathers is surrounded by Elmer Jesperson, Ada Meyerhoff (in a wheelchair), Flora Flostad, and the Boettcher brothers, Hermie and Tom Tom.

And in what may seem to us a surprisingly short amount of time, but does not to Chipper Maxton, who understands that very few people wish to linger in an elder-care facility any longer than they must, the relatives bestow their final hugs and kisses, round up the exhausted kiddies, and file down the paths and over the grass into the parking lot, along the way a good number depositing bills in the basket atop Ragtime Willie's upright piano.

Maxton said something I didn't understand--defying him, I reckoned--and this fellow said he'd already set the loogaroos on scores of families.

Maxton asked him what if a white man had, and Fetch picked up a piece of wood--a Y-shaped stick with hair and beads tied to it, and pointed it at me (he'd guessed I was the leader) and said he was going to put the loogaroos on me and my master that very minute.

Maxton said something I didn't understand—defying him, I reckoned—and this fellow said he'd already set the loogaroos on scores of families.

Maxton asked him what if a white man had, and Fetch picked up a piece of wood—a Y-shaped stick with hair and beads tied to it, and pointed it at me (he'd guessed I was the leader) and said he was going to put the loogaroos on me and my master that very minute.

Down the corridor of Daisy wing he shuffles, across the empty lobby, and up to the burnished door further distinguished by the brass nameplate reading WILLIAM MAXTON, DIRECTOR.