Word: fume
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the Secretary of State for India is an arbiter of old port, new cravats and suave cigars, there is a snatch of recitative pretended to have issued from his lips in a fume of dilatory tobacco smoke...
...trainer looked at him in disgust, upbraided him. "Well, old man, you'd better get to like me," retorted the fresh kid, "because I'm going to be around a long time." Coming from a rookie, this was maddening. His name made old players froth, fume. But the manager approved. He signed the brash one for the season, and wisely. A sublime self-assurance, as any baseball players knows, is essential to one who would play the game...
...procedure, pays all bills, arranges speaking programs, allots expenses on a pro-rata basis. Aspirants speak seriatim the same night in the same place, a method obviously conducive to personalities and retorts discourteous. In this "joint debate" system the old-style ranters of the Dial-Blease ilk rave, rage, fume, spume, howl- over imaginary issues. Under these conditions Washington really expects long-haired sombreroed political buffoons-and that is just what Washington sometimes gets, although Senator Smith is a happy exception...
...became a "publicity agent" and a "moulder of favorable public opinion." If there is anything an editor hates to do it is to give something for nothing, that is, empty space for heavy camouflage that should (he feels) be paid for at advertising rates. Publishers' trade sheets fuss and fume with "exposes" of "moulders" and "agents" specially dangerous to the publishing weal...
...over suitings and silk cravat, small boys see themselves in dreams returning, rich, famous, to astound the goateed station agent, the paunchy hotel proprietor, the sheriffs, rumdums and soda clerks of their old home town. Last week, Lawrence Tibbett, 28-year-old U. .S. baritone who came to fume one evening in Fahtaff at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 12), returned to the hamlet of Bakersfield, Calif. His traveling appointments and haberdashery were in perfect taste. In the local opera house, he lifted the voice that had made the gallery-ghouls of the Metropolitan beat their palms...