Word: brushoffs
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...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...
Better than most he knew the history of the Administration's bewildering policy there: its brushoff of Formosa last January as strategically not worth the risk; its apparently forthright decision on June 27 to defend it; Dean Acheson's spurning, after that, of any alliance with Chiang...