Word: ego
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good sense is coming back," he said. "This is no time for ego inflation." Oboler pressagents, used to getting almost daily suggestions from the Prodigy, were inclined to treat this as another one; but pressagents have no souls. The fact remained that Oboler, who brought to radio drama the unabashed showmanship of a Zanuck, was doing his Plays for Americans free and on his own motion (seconded and guided by NBC). The first one, Johnny Quinn, U.S.N., had its hokey qualities, but it was well directed (by Oboler), nicely played, and it turned a wise guy into a hero...
General Wavell's Deputy Supreme Commander-in other words his chief sidekick, his alter ego-was to be Major General George H. Brett, 55, Chief of the Air Corps of the U.S. Army. A good choice, certainly. He would assure the air arm of a hearing. An expert on supply, he would see to first things first: secure lines before tactical missions. Fresh from a tour which took in Egypt, Britain, India and Russia, he probably knew more about problems of Allied cooperation than any other U.S. officer. Grey-haired, dapper, popular, he has not let desk duties ground...
...intestinal fortitude can shoot one with no harmful results. I have two now and neither one kicks so hard but that small game can be shot with them. I have owned a .45 weighing only 21 ounces and even that was not too much of a blow to the ego. WILLIAM B. PARKER Albany...
...matador who believed that bulls and women were created for the sole purpose of giving him glory and pleasure. A poor boy who came up the hard way, he was the idol of Spain's bull rings and boudoirs until a disrespectful bull punctured his vast ego with a well-directed horn. He died bitterly within the sound of the fight fans acclaiming their new hero of the afternoon...
...horizontal mobility long enough to be a compleat angler. He despairs of modern jazz, movies, radio, advertising, and has a high unconcern for the press. He is above all criticism, good or bad, from a world whose culture and civilization are degenerate. He has an enormous and un-selfconscious ego concerning the immortality of his works, but won't budge form the assertion that none of the modern greats correspond in ability to those of the past. "When there are no fish, a crawfish is a fish," he says. "I am a crawfish." Yet he has doubled the size...