Word: huff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cardinal Segura promptly flew off to Rome in a huff. He was not on hand to welcome his new co-archbishop to Seville, but 2,000 Sevillianos were. They were delighted with the modest prelate when he described himself as "a figure humble and simpatico." He added: "With this first pastoral benediction I give you. I desire to enter into your hearts and souls...
...close the schools, arranged a meeting with the State Board of Education to find out what it should do next. Upshot of the meeting was still more confusion. The state board blamed the local board for not having consulted it earlier, and the Milford members resigned in a huff. As for the eleven Negroes, the state board ruled they should remain. At week's end the schools of Milford were planning to open once again, with no one knowing what to expect...
Meanwhile the Senate was still talking. Nevada's dour George Malone was in a huff because Colorado's Eugene Millikin had blocked his pet bill to extend the tax-free whisky-bonding period. So Malone resolved to block Millikin's pet Colorado Basin project, which was the Senate's pending business. He talked about neither reclamation nor whisky and he talked for four hours. ("What is he talking about?" asked a late-coming reporter of a press-gallery attendant. "I don't know; he hasn't said," replied the attendant.) Finally Millikin threw...
...Curtis is an engineering genius, and 2) Piper Laurie is capable of designing a sports car. For the rest, it is a routine, summer-weight Technicolor film that spends most of its time following a road race from the Canadian border to Lower California. Sidney Blackmer and Paul Kelly huff and puff at each other as a pair of old-crony businessmen; Piper Laurie, a talented exponent of the bosom-and-pout school of acting, stamps her foot occasionally and flirts tamely with Villain Don Taylor; Actor Curtis runs into a hero's usual hard luck in the race...
Fletcher Riley, a candidate for governor, was stopped by California police on the way to visit his estranged wife and relieved of a revolver and a rifle. Charley Huff, running for secretary of state, limited his plea for votes to the boast that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." In Sequoyah County, E. W. Floyd, a brother of the late Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. And Homer Cox, just declared sane after his mother asked an examination by a sanity board, lost his race for secretary of state. Sighed...