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Actor Olivier's Hotspur was no ranting hothead, but a feudal lord with tremendous dash-gay, sarcastic, masterful. (In Part II Actor Olivier turned up delightfully as that "forked radish," gaunt, garrulous Justice Shallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Plays in Manhattan, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Public reaction to the Storni letter and its answer was divided. As the wording of the U.S. note sank in, extremely nationalistic Argentines grew hot with anger. Said one young hothead: "To hell with the U.S. We're looking toward Europe for now and after the war." Said one whose head was much cooler: "Don't think me unpatriotic, but the Government was asking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Misunderstood Argentina | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...Packard employe had nine traffic and 14 plant accidents in five years. The foreman found him a hothead who liked to ram drivers he saw violating traffic regulations, a fast worker with excess time for practical jokes (which often backfired). Switched to a responsible maintenance position, his traffic and plant accident scores dropped abruptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Purely Co-accidental | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...Wrote Hothead Belmonte: "We have received all maps showing the most favorable sites for landing. These show me once more that you [Wendler] and your staff are doing excellent preparation for the realization of our plan in favor of Bolivia. . . . We must destroy the tungsten contract with the U.S. . . . Bolivia does not need American loans. With the victory of the German Reich, Bolivia will need only work and discipline. ... I will fly to Brazil upon your advice and take Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, where I have good friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Battle Underground | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

Died. Stocky, boyish-looking Commander Günther Prien, 33, Germany's No. 1 naval hero; spurlos versenkt in the Battle of the Atlantic. A shrill-voiced banty, called "little hothead" by his friends, he won the awed admiration of enemy sea fighters as well as his own countrymen by a daring and ingenuity that sank a claimed 235,941 tons of shipping. After his submarine torpedoed H.M.S. Royal Oak inside the heavily mined harbor at Scapa Flow in October 1939, the British Admiralty paid tribute to his "remarkable skill and daring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

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