Word: dudgeon
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...play starts when the hero, Dick Dudgeon, who is the black sheep of a pious New England family, gets a legacy. This isn't right, for black sheep don't usually get legacies and heroes don't usually triumph at the beginning. When Dick later decides to be heroic he does so just because he feels like it, and not for the love of the minister's beautiful young wife, as he should. And when the elderly minister should become heroic, he's a coward. In the end, however, the minister appears with pistols, and both he and Dick Dudgeon...
...room. Long after the platoon of servers had gone, Maria's shrieks were counterpointed by the sound of bric-a-brac smashing against the walls. Next morning Soprano Callas, leaving her summonses behind her, hopped off to Milan. Arriving in sunny Italy, she was still in high-soprano dudgeon. "Those Zulus maltreated me," she caterwauled. "But I don't care a dime what those people...
...where did you get that stuff?" Flurried Commentator John Prosser shouted to a station WKAT engineer, "Cut the broadcast!" and the interview was replaced by 30 minutes of recorded music. Later, Prosser explained that his information came from the International Encyclopedia of Music. Stokowski took himself off in high dudgeon, refused to clarify for reporters either his birth date or parentage...
...will not be permitted to bully anyone into a reversal of the decision. Said President Eisenhower, when asked about the Mc-Leod case: the assignment of administrative officers is the responsibility of department heads-and that of no one else. McCarthy, who went charging about in high dudgeon on first hearing of the McLeod action, cooled off rapidly and said he expected that the State Department, in the normal course of procedure, would forward an explanation. Mild also was his answer to Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, who said McCarthy's charges of the Army's coddling Communists were...
...Rome, pompous Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli, 63, who left the Metropolitan Opera Company and the U.S. in high dudgeon in 1939 after making cooing sounds about progress under Mussolini's Fascists, announced his interest in the current political score. He will be a candidate for a seat in the new Chamber of Deputies on Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democratic ticket in the June elections...