Word: curmudgeon
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...close subordinates and the discomfiture of his Episcopalian antagonists. Bishop Manning has almost always been right. That rigid position has not endeared him to his opponents-or to the public; his vigilant guardianship of orthodoxy has often made New York's Bishop look something of a prim curmudgeon...
...Ickes and the Senator snarled at each other like a pair of constipated cougars. Ickes called Tydings "counsel for the defense," accused him of using police-court methods, once pulled him up sharply for splitting an infinitive. When Tydings accused him of giving conflicting testimony, the Curmudgeon snapped: "You don't have to shake an admonitory finger...
...Curmudgeon Bussed, Cussed
Sirs: If, on Feb. 13, you felt a great breeze from out of the West, don't be puzzled. It was just a great sigh of relief from the people of the West that the Old Curmudgeon, Harold L. Ickes, had, at long last, resigned. ... So many of us have lost our homes here in the West through the action of Mr. Ickes in setting aside great tracts for the scenery. . . . ANN COOPER Cody...
...Pauley. But when Ickes got through charging Ed Pauley with an attempt at political bribery, Mr. Truman had only two choices: to withdraw Pauley's nomination as Under Secretary of the Navy, or slap Ickes down. Last week Harry Truman slapped Ickes down, by saying that the Curmudgeon could very well have been mistaken...