Word: fractiousness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiorello H. LaGuardia, New York's fractious, frabjous little Mayor, looked forward to a monthly radio broadcast over WJZ, and looked over his shoulder at one of his pet projects, the New York City Center of Music and Drama. Admitting that he had never attended a ballet performance there, he explained: "I'm so prejudiced against ballet. I can't be fair about it. It's the male ballet dancers I can't stand...
...dared the Government go? If the purpose of its note to Germany was to prepare Argentine public opinion for war, could it sway the fractious Army, too? No one doubted that canny Vice President Perón remembered that Argentina's diplomatic break with the Axis a year ago had caused super-nationalists to overthrow Pedro Ramirez' Government. At week's end the situation in Buenos Aires was still "fluid...
...Desert Song (Warner) lingers melodiously on from the days (1926-27) when it was a Broadway operetta and the fractious Riffs were all that most people knew about in North Africa. It tries hard to be immediately prewar, with cracks about Vichy and a Nazi plot to put a rail road across the Sahara to Dakar. But it remains an amusingly archaic, Technicolored story about an indolent U.S. café-pianist (Dennis Morgan) and a Riffhounding French officer (Bruce Cabot), who are rivals for a French songstress (Irene Manning). This triangle is menaced by El Khobar, masked leader...
...this mass of papers his son, Arthur (Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede), a onetime page at the Queen's court (see cut), has contrived a book which is both a biography of his father and a candid portrait of the Queen in her most fractious, most politically influential years...
When M-day came to WPB last week, Donald Nelson faced a dilemma of his own making. Month ago he could have bumped the heads of his fractious assistants. Last week Palace Guard shenanigans had gone too far to make this any longer possible. In sacrifice of top-flight ability, his indecision had cost the U.S. dearly...