Word: curmudgeon
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...reading the magazine, my ardor in pursuing this sadistic task has been rather dampened by the quality of some of the material under consideration. Two stories, one poem, and one picture in the current issue are, I think, admirable, a fact which makes the magazine frustrating to the professional curmudgeon but rewarding to the reader...
...Curmudgeon probably didn't know any better but certainly Davies, being a director of Standard Oil of California, was up to his capitalistic tricks. The conclusion of Mr. lakes was arrived at by the very amateurish method of dividing known reserves by present output. "Known reserves" is a misleading term because new methods of getting petroleum out of nature are discovered at a greater rate than it can be consumed...
...could be recovered profitably from them, it was taken for granted that the states owned the submerged lands. So the states leased some of them to oil companies. They took out the rich oil and richer profits, and paid moderate royalties for the privilege. Even Curmudgeon Harold Ickes, who as Secretary of the Interior seldom agreed with anybody, agreed in 1933 that this seemed to be "the settled...
Harold L. Ickes (Sun. 7 p.m., ABC). The old Curmudgeon subs for Drew Pearson...
Saber-tongued Harold Ickes went to work last week at a trade he had often reviled. Hanging out his shingle as a syndicated columnist (97 U.S. newspapers), the old Curmudgeon festooned it with promises: to tell no lies, to pull no punches, to abstain ("unless compelled by events") from promoting a third party. "I have stipulated," Harold Ickes warned all & sundry, "that I may neither be expurgated nor amended...