Word: captiousness
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...think," "File and Forget." He never rewrote a piece himself, but his marginal scrawls often ran almost as long as the article. Another prejudice-against the traditional two-line* "he & she" cartoon-led to the one-line caption, sharpened by a dozen rewrites. Ross was as captious about cartoons as about stories. Looking at a cartoon, he would growl: "Who's talking?" A character had to have his mouth wide open so the reader would know instantly who was talking. Though his profanity was as natural and unconscious as his breathing, he was puritanical about the printed word...
...most San Franciscans were concerned. But it was neither his U.S. debut nor his first U.S. critical rave. He was one of 25 unhappy European singers who were stranded in Chicago four seasons ago when their impresario went broke (TIME, Feb. 10, 1947). The Chicago Tribune's captious Claudia Cassidy got him to sing a few bars of Lamentation of a Siberian Prisoner to her over the telephone. She compared him to Chaliapin and Pinza...
Died. Arthur Ungar, 64, editor since its founding (1933) of Hollywood's captious, oracular Daily Variety; of a heart attack; in Del Mar, Calif...
...enlightened men of Klerksdorp have not assuaged all our post-earthly anxieties. Will St. Peter provide separate counters for applicants for immortality? Will mixed celestial orchestras twang their harps and so destroy in heaven all the good the intelligentsia of Klerksdorp have done on earth? We must not be captious. It is enough for the moment to know that one can see Klerksdorp, and die-like a white...
...Tories would give them. As the anti-Socialist Economist recently said: "Instead of standing forth as the champions of wise and vigorous government [the Tories] have allowed themselves, by talking in generalities about abstract principles such as 'freedom' and 'enterprise,' to be represented as the captious remnant of a bygone social order. . . They have treated the rise of Socialism as an aberration from the normal British way of life, instead of recognizing that the Socialist ideal of the welfare state is very closely in tune with the ideas of a frustrated and war-weary nation...