Word: brushoffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave the Speech Department another full-time man and a large slice of the budget. For, if the ability to write English is worth a year's course and a corps of section men, surely the ability to speak deserves more than a slim budget and a brushoff...
...Ready Answer. In those days, the plaintiff mused, C. Blevins had talked gratefully of buying his trainer & manager a farm where Collins "could raise a few cows or chickens." Instead, once married, Davis had given him the big brushoff. Collins asked the court for $250,000 for his efforts to aid Davis socially, $100,000 damages because Davis had twice beaten him up, and $4,300 which he claimed to have spent in keeping Davis presentable...
...secret which Marion Davies herself had patiently kept, during a painful fortnight in which she had a good chance to learn who her friends were. The empire's chieftains, who had once sought her favor, quickly gave her the brushoff. They had read the Chief's will: it left the multimillion-dollar Hearst fortune* to Hearst's widow and five sons and to charities, left the details of administration to his sons and eight other executors who assumed, as a matter of course, that they would run the business...
...repeated the sentiment last year to Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller. Afterwards, Miller had fought through a $125 million credit for Perón in Washington, insisting that no strings be attached. Last week Miller was back from another visit to Buenos Aires, smarting from a brushoff that was insulting not only...
Toscanini's troubles merely spotlighted a trend that has been in the making for a long time. Its budgets severely cramped by television's voracious demands, big radio is giving serious music and musicians the brushoff...