Word: curmudgeoned
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...Curmudgeon, who had come a producing and consuming countries. Long before then, U.S. oilmen expect to get some solid results. Some hope that the pact will mean an end to the Red Line area agreement* which has slowed drilling in parts of the Middle East...
...Curmudgeon Ickes didn't like the idea at all. Henry the Morgue was afraid the statuette of himself might be sold over the counter for 50?, along with little images of Buffalo Bill and George Washington. President Roosevelt took one look at the result and cried: "Wait a minute. I don't wear a waistcoat." Through it all, diminutive, agile, 53-year-old Sculptor Max Kalish preserved speed and competence. He was engaged in one of the most spectacular one-man sculpture marathons ever undertaken: the modeling of some 50 statues of U.S. war leaders in sittings...
...Curmudgeon, Inch-builder, press-purist Ickes...
...publishable letters. In the lingo of social workers, practically all brothers and sisters who are not twins are siblings. "To me," wrote the Judge to all probation officers, "it has a very doubtful sound, dubious, dismal, desperate. . . . How would you like to be called ... a coystrel* or a curmudgeon. . . . Exit sibling...
...Thunder rolls on the Potomac when reference is made to Curmudgeon Ickes' middle name. Spelled sometimes Le Clair, sometimes Le Claire or LeClare, the correct spelling has never been discovered. Ickes intimates who have put the question, and survived, hint that LeClare is Ickes' most-favored version of his mosthated name...