Word: dudgeon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leonine, he walks scholarly, reflective paths at his home on Boar's Hill, near Oxford. Careless of the social niceties, when his tea is too hot he pours it into the saucer to cool it. Careful of pennies, he will stamp out of a tobacconist's shop in high dudgeon if he thinks the pipe-tobacco a halfpenny dearer than it should be. His life has been unexciting. He pays little attention to young critics who dismiss his poetry with the same adjective...
Secretary Akerson told them to return next day. They did, to find no appointment with the President ready for them. The third day was like the second, the fourth like the third. Plainly President Hoover would not see them. In high dudgeon they left Washington. Mayor de Golier exclaimed: "I am deeply disappointed. . . . Discrimination...
...much against the wishes of Mrs. Holmes is established in the family. The son of the house Alf, deserting his former unprepossessing sweetheart, falls in love with Violet, and his marriage is supported by his father, the idealist. Mrs. Holmes, however walks out of the house in high dudgeon...
What redeeming features there are in the play appear in the really excellent work of Mrs. Ellspeth Dudgeon as the caustic, hard-headed, soft-hearted Mrs. Holmes, and the superb characterization of Violet Hunt by Miss Elsie Wagstaff, whose walk, voice, and manner give the very, spirit of the oldest profession. A word should also be said for Miss Doris Glaenzer, who was very entertaining as Alf's flat-footed first love. Mr. Clive, usually at home in any role, was not always quite convincing as a brother to all the world
Bernarr Macfadden publishes in his tabloid newspaper, the New York pornoGraphic, full, front page pictures of Rudolph Valentino's "ghost" in pajamas. He publishes composite faked pictures of old lechers, young miscegenators, alleged murderers, undressed girls. But Publisher Macfadden rises in dudgeon when similar liberties are taken with his own, more robust physique...