Word: fumings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain talk, this means the broadcasters will have to follow the line laid down by the State Department. To broadcasters who are already used to working hand & glove with the State Department, this proviso was just part of the game, but the sensitive press began to spit and fume...
...sweet, menacing old lady" on middle-class Central Park West, scowls at white ties, gives manners-be-damned, whiskey-by-the-case, all-night free-for-alls, gets bored with people and keeps picking up new ones. Rodgers takes the world in his stride; Hart is tempted to protest, fume, explain, deprecate - argues, for ex ample, with the desk-clerk of a Khartoum hotel because it does not carry Variety...
English snobbery made her fume, but she later decided a rigid caste system had the good result of making modest-income people immune to success stories, and hence to U. S. "bootstrap hysteria." "A good deal in England makes the blood boil," says Author Halsey, "but there is not nearly so much occasion as there is in America for blood to run cold"-meaning lynchings, gangsters, etc. As between good and bad Englishness, Author Halsey calls it about a draw. "Living in England," she concludes, "must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife. Whenever you have...
...Satevepost advertising revenue had fallen below $18,000,000, and although "nonpartisan, but never neutral" had been a strict Lorimer policy, the New Deal brought out his Republican individualism. In 1934 his ordinarily innocuous editorial page began to sputter and fume about "Who is Going to Pay?", "Roads to Nowhere." But Satevepost profits, unlike those of many other New Deal haters, surged ahead. Publisher Curtis had turned over Satevepost and Curtis Publishing Co. in its entirety to Mr. Lorimer in 1932, and when Lorimer retired at the beginning of this year he left the Curtis house well in order...
...turbines; the commander getting the enemy's range again & again in his finder, announcing it in a flat singsong; one gun turret after another reporting "Ready"; a lone survivor in one gun turret groping to the telephone for instructions; sailors, protected by masks and helmets, staggering about in fume-filled turrets, loading the guns (see cut, p. 44). The battle is bitter and bloody. When it is over and victory has been won, the commander retires to his quarters, dons the ceremonial robes for harakiri, slices his belly open. Another officer administers the coup de gráce with...