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...concert violinist. After fiddling for five years as a concert side show to the late, great Enrico Caruso, Cugat settled in Los Angeles, where he made a high-toned debut as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. When the critics failed to rave, Cugat gave up the violin in disgust, took a job as a cartoonist on the Los Angeles Times...
...their own inventions. As long ago as 1914 H. G. Wells, in Little Wars, told how he and his friends had played with toy cannon, soldiers, houses and mock terrain, a play war of "brisk little battles." In 1917 Hudson Maxim, the inventor and explosives expert, revealed with some disgust that he had been forced to redesign his own war game to include the new factor of airpower. A New Yorker profile of Norman Bel Geddes in 1941 noted...
...dreadful man? Disagreement on this point has kept his profitable reading public in a tizzy for years. His best-selling first novel (The Postman Always Rings Twice) was banned in Canada, bought and shelved by M.G.M. by request of the Hays office. Serenade and Mildred Pierce provoked enthusiasm, disgust. What baffled readers was the fact that Author Cain handled the rawest of characters without gloves, mixed social significance and abnormal psychology into speedy narratives of crime and passion...
...happening all over again, only not quite the same way. During August the scrappy young Cardinals had come up from behind until now they were only two games behind the faltering Dodgers. Cooper had not lost a game since he discarded his No. 13 shirt in disgust, and begun borrowing that teammate's shirt whose number corresponded to the number of the game he wanted...
...driest Idaho, he courageously ran for Senator on a repeal platform. Although he comes from silver-mining country, he steadily, firmly condemns the Silver Purchase Act as economic idiocy. He was Democratic county chairman in 1940 when Glenn Taylor won the nomination and at once resigned in disgust, announcing that he would support the Republican nominee, who was, said he, an economic illiterate but not quite a complete imbecile. He calls Cowboy Taylor a "goddam pettifogging demagogue...