Word: dudgeoned
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...dudgeon hitting high C, Soprano Renata Tebaldi scoffed at the suggestion that she was defecting from the Metropolitan Opera this season because of other commitments made during the Met's recent lengthy labor negotiations. Actual reason for her desertion, charged the prima donna, was that the Met management had shamelessly violated a promise "of many years" by scratching its scheduled revival of a Tebaldi favorite, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur...
...monumental weekend that began with a party in his West Side Manhattan apartment. The 200 guests were right out of a Mailer manuscript: poets, prizefighters, homosexuals, writers, Big Beat Allen Ginsburg, Actor Franciosa, Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz, Critic Delmore Schwartz. Syndicated Name Dropper Leonard Lyons left in a dudgeon when the sockless hipsters began to outnumber the quality folk ("I couldn't see the furniture for the beats"). The host and hostess welcomed their swarming guests in separate rooms, and as the party roared past the midnight hour, Mailer drank deeply and became moodily belligerent. By the time...
...Dick Dudgeon, the imposturing knave of the title, Actor Douglas gnashes his teeth - as well as the arch dialogue -and looks less like the male Candida that Shaw intended than like a Sportin' Life in tights. Actor Lancaster, as the local parson, glooms away Shaw's most romantic scenes as if he were lost on a Brontë moor. In a climactic scene of comic derring-do, ex-Acrobat Lancaster makes heroic hash of a colonial court house and all the Redcoats in it. Otherwise he is as stiff and starchy as the clerical collar he eventually gives...
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...reported that Lady Beatty spatted with Sinatra and "drove off in a Huff [Nov. 10]." It was not a Huff, but a Dudgeon. It is easy to understand how this mistake was made. It was not one of the old-model high Dudgeons, but one of the new low ones, which are frequently mistaken for Huffs, particularly when there is any fog about. I am quite sure of the facts in this matter, as I happened to be driving by in my 1958 Dilemma at the time...