Word: impetuousity
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If the sailors of the S.S. Lotus are unsatisfactory as comic characters, at least the situations are often funny. Many are stock: the predicted accident, the splattered face, the timid or revulsed male confronted with the fond, impetuous female. But even the most banal scenes (e.g. the predictable seasickness) are...
¶ Hurley, wrote Truman, "was an impetuous sort of person" who, in November 1945, while still Ambassador to China, publicly attacked the U.S.'s China policy less than two hours after he had been amiably discussing the Chinese situation with Truman. At that point, said Truman, "I realized that...
No one knows whether impetuous Sergo Ordzhonikidze got a chance to raise hell in the Politburo, but he died shortly thereafter. In February 1937 he was buried with great pomp in the Kremlin wall, his flower-decked bier borne by Stalin. Molotov, Voroshilov and other top commissars. It was cautiously...
Confronted with such turbulence, the Sultan sought to set up his country's first representative government. He did not entirely trust the country's largest party, the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, whose leaders are united in hostility but undecided which prophet to follow, Marx or Mohammed. As first Premier...
Symphony, he paces about his penthouse with lips clamped in the expression of the well-known bust in the music room; but somehow, with his fluttery dimples and impetuous curls, he looks rather more like a pink plastic dolly with built-in colic.