Word: crabbiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a decade cinemaudiences have known short-tempered, pince-nezed Actor Robert McWade as the crabbiest, crustiest crosspatch that ever foreclosed a mortgage or sicked the dogs on a luckless swain. Last week in Hollywood, 56-year-old Actor McWade, in the oppressive regimentals of a Civil War officer, went wearily over & over a scene with James Stewart in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Benefits Forgot. He couldn't seem to smooth out his lines. Finally he got them straight. Veteran Director Clarence Brown shouted orders, "Cut, save the lights," and rubbed his hands. "Fine," he exulted, "fine...
...filled German hearts to bursting last week when beloved Realmleader Hitler took the most popular plunge of his career. Only crabbiest correspondents sneered when elfin little Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, sparkling-eyed and jumping for joy on his club foot, announced that Germans were rejoicing before he released the news at which they would rejoice. At hastily summoned newshawks. Dr. Goebbels thrust this historic handout: "Enthusiasm prevails among the German people. Simultaneously with this expression of joy and supreme happiness over the defense of German security through the rearmament now resolved upon, the German people...
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