Backfisch

At the time my girlfriend, Karen Backfisch, was on the trading desk of Steinhardt Partners, where every day she was taking down 500,000-share blocks of Alcoa and Phelps Dodge and Georgia Pacific and International Paper.

Jim Cramer's Real Money James J. Cramer 2005

At the time my girlfriend, Karen Backfisch, was on the trading desk of Steinhardt Partners, where every day she was taking down 500,000-share blocks of Alcoa and Phelps Dodge and Georgia Pacific and International Paper.

Jim Cramer's Real Money James J. Cramer 2005

Finally, I broke down and called Karen Backfisch, who would become Karen Cramer, but this was way before I thought that possible.

Jim Cramer's Real Money James J. Cramer 2005

Finally, I broke down and called Karen Backfisch, who would become Karen Cramer, but this was way before I thought that possible.

Jim Cramer's Real Money James J. Cramer 2005

Making allowance for that aberration, recent visitors tell us of a renewed youth hardened by exercise and by games to replace the fat boy and the Backfisch of the caricatures.

The Goat and the Vine 1934

As that failed of specific effect, 'You really are a little ridiculous,' he said again, with the edge in his voice, 'hanging on the lips of that Backfisch as if she were Demosthenes.'

The Convert 1907

Mendelssohn's _Elijah_ "a clerical humbug's paternoster," and he had called certain _Lieder_ of Schumann "_Backfisch Musik_": and that in the face of the declared preference of the august Princess for those works!

Jean-Christophe, Volume I Romain Rolland 1905

_Backfisch_, and my mother dressed me in a little scarlet coat with big pearl buttons, and my eyes turned down because I was shy, and my nose turned up because I was impudent, one summer at the seaside with my governess we noticed in our walks a solitary lady of dignified appearance, who spoke to no one, and seemed for ever wrapped in distant and lofty philosophic speculations.

The Solitary Summer Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

Nobody ever came to it, for in winter it was too dreary, and in summer so full of mosquitoes that only a Backfisch indifferent to spots could have borne it.

Elizabeth and Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

As a Backfisch I had never used handkerchiefs -- the child of nature scorns to blow its nose -- though for decency's sake my governess insisted on giving me a clean one of vast size and stubborn texture on Sundays.

Elizabeth and Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim 1903