Word: huff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nazi journalists behaved like badly spoiled, ill-tempered and sulky brats last week at London and Brussels. At London, they boycotted Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech. At Lima, five German correspondents stalked out of a committee session in a huff when Dantes Bellegarde, Haitian delegate, declared that the Americas could not "possibly have anything in common with a nation that had reverted to customs of the Middle Ages...
...Russe de Monte Carlo was severely criticized for taking curtain calls while the audience called for the ballerina. Ever since, Lifar has been grumpy, dissatisfied. Last week in Manhattan he challenged Ballet Director Leonide Massine to a duel in Central Park. Massine told him, "Take an aspirin." In a huff Lifar took instead the S. S. Champlain for Europe...
...slid up New York Harbor, news spread over the ship that Europe was not going to war after all. Bursting with this glorious coincidence, Metropolitan Opera Stars Elisabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza exploded into super-canary song. Ex-Opera Star Beniamino Gigli, who left the Metropolitan in a huff six years ago when it threatened to cut his pay, and who was returning to the U. S. to sing on the radio, could not wait either. While stewards gasped, he gave everything he had to "Where Do You Worka John? On the Delaware Lacka...
...which he maintains on his extensive Potosí landholdings, helped boost Señor Cárdenas into the Presidency in 1934 and Señor Cedillo became Minister of Agriculture. The General, however, opposed the land expropriation Cárdenas program. Nine months ago he resigned in a huff. With cries of "Fascist" from Mexican Laborites and left-wingers ringing in his ears, the old "Bull of Potosí" waddled off to his great Las Palomas hacienda. From there he continued to block organization drives of the Leftist CTM labor union in his State, permitted Catholic schools to continue...
...just calmly raked in by expropriation $400,000,000 worth of oil properties owned by U. S. and British citizens (TIME, March 28). The game of oil must now be resumed in Mexico and, with such mulcted players as Standard Oil and Britain's Shell in a huff last week, there was a grand chance for Rickett & Smith to grab front seats at the Big Table before the wheel began to spin again. There ought to be bargains in Mexican oil today...