Word: huffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this rented house in the beautiful Berkshires, a staff of three masters, a family of four Negro servants, an enrolment of 20 boys. But the boys were beginning to arrive, there was much to be done, and the father of the Negro family had left in a huff. Out to the kitchen bustled White Cassock to tell the harassed Negro mother: "All we wish for supper is some nice corn-cakes...
...years later he built Valkyrie III to race against C. Oliver Iselin's Defender. In that unfortunate race Valkyrie's boom struck Defender's upper rigging at the start and although the committee ruled it no contest, Valkyrie finished, won, claimed the victory. Lord Dunraven went home in a huff, accused Defender of being secretly overballasted...
...Farmers National Grain Corp., of Chicago; Clarence Elmer Huff, president. F. N. G. C. sells wheat for members or loans them 85% of the spot price. Last week it said it was handling one-third of all wheat through Kansas City, predicted it would handle half the U. S. crop next year, claimed that in the foreign field it was already the world's biggest factor...
...General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., 55, chief of the 4th Section (supplies and evacuation) of General Pershing's Wartime General Staff; General Charles Gates Dawes's assistant in organizing the Bureau of Budget in 1921; now aid to the Assistant Secretary of War, Frederik Huff Payne (TIME, May 5); and Mrs. Florence DuBois, 36, daughter of the late James Barber, co-founder of Barber Steamship Lines; in Manhattan...
...What of it?" thought many an Englishman last week, as he read in the papers that the Grand Mufti of the Palestine Arabs had left London for home in a huff. What if the blighter was angry at Prime Minister MacDonald's refusal to grant certain demands? Merely this-the Grand Mufti, of course, is a Mohammedan. No sooner did news of Britain's snub to the Mufti reach troubled India (see above) than powerful 'Mohammedan elements, previously lukewarm toward St. Gandhi, a Hindu, began to throw their influence on the side of his campaign for Independence...