Word: huff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...color. It shows two disgraceful pink porkers lazily building themselves shacks out of straw. A wolf blows their houses down. The lazy pigs have a more industrious brother who has just completed a brick mansion, in which he allows them to take refuge. When the wolf attempts to huff & puff this house down, he fails ignominiously. He then tries to climb down the chimney. The lazy pigs are alarmed. The industrious pig builds a roaring fire, singes the wolf's tail...
...double-edged huff, President Hoover and President-elect Roosevelt parted company last week on U. S. foreign policies. As a result any War Debt settlement went over until after March 4. In his special message to Congress last fortnight President Hoover said he wanted to make a combined attack on debts, disarmament and world economics by means of an executive commission. To that end he proposed again to seek the co-operation of his successor who, after their White House meeting of last November, had already refused to support his methods. Between the White House and the Executive Mansion...
...Gold Room" of the Queen City Club, the Post's society editor found herself secluded from the guests, at a table on the balcony. Later she declared that she had been served only one course of the dinner. The Times-Star reporter, a Rhodes scholar, left in a huff. Nevertheless all three papers obediently reported only the chit-chat of the event on their society pages next day, mentioned only the title of Sir Frederick's hour-and-a-half address...
Jesse Louis Lasky who recently resigned from Paramount Publix Corp. in a huff, announced he has formed his own production firm, will make eight pictures a year for Fox Film Corp...
Vice President Jesse Louis Lasky resigned in a huff from Paramount Publix Corp. Last week Paramount reported a $5,900,000 loss for the three months ended July...