Word: highhandedness
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The Confidential Clerk wears a full-length farcical overcoat; on the outside, all is mistaken identity and mixed-up parentage. It opens with Sir Claude Mulhammer, a financier who yearns to be a potter, taking on as private secretary his illegitimate son, Colby Simpkins-a young man who yearns to...
For more than a quarter of a century, peppery Dr. (of medicine) Fuat Husuli Tugay has been considered one of Turkey's key diplomatic representatives abroad. But even a diplomat can forget his diplomacy where his wife is concerned. Last November, while he was at home on leave from...
"I Ain't Afraid of No One." Managing Editor Hathway's campaign against De Koning was hardly personal. Ever since he came to Newsday eleven years ago from the New York Daily News, Hathway has been deluged with tips and complaints about De Koning's rough, highhanded...
When the catalogue appeared, the campus finally erupted. To the faculty, the Reese affair was a symbol of everything that angered them about Freeman's and Frasier's highhanded ways. All seven members of the physical education department threatened to resign unless Reese was dropped. The rest of...
A hot-tempered, sometimes highhanded man, President Stoddard was anything but a diplomat with legislators. Complained one trustee: "How would you like to go to Springfield to get some money from the legislature and be asked by everybody in the corridors: 'When are you going to fire Stoddard?'...