Word: killjoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cadet out," scoffed Huey, "you're Rooney Maupin about like a killjoy. Put that drink Downing the Hatch, and don't spill it on your Frontezak. You Cantabs your mind made up. Huey says Harvard 7, Army...
...neuroses, in Vienna in 1896, his worldly colleagues regarded him with the embarrassed annoyance reserved for those who hammer away at something people would rather not talk about, even if talking would teach them something. But for laymen, as Freud's theories spread, he emerged as the greatest killjoy in the history of human thought, transforming man's jokes and gentle pleasures into dreary and mysterious repressions, discovering hatreds at the root of love, malice at the heart of tenderness, incest in filial affections, guilt in generosity and the repressed hatred of one's father...
According to one instructor, there is no excuse for a student not finding one of these amoeba now, because if one should drop on the floor one might slip on it. Biologists under the old plan, typically killjoy, have been heard to say, "Sissy stuff...
...Separation. Arthur Marcus Loew, 38, vice president and general manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, one-time son-in-law of Adolph Zukor; by Barbara Mae Smith Loew, 25. onetime showgirl; in White Plains, N. Y. Charges: He treated her like a child, humiliated her before servants, called her a killjoy, drank excessively, abandoned her at parties, allowed women to put makeup on his face, pinched her dog, harassed her canary. Mrs. Loew asked $3,000 per month maintenance, $25,000 for counsel fees, $2.500 for special costs. Mr. Loew: "Preposterous...
...betraying dishonest colleagues. One of his bosses once told him: "Ye're a bit too gude for this worrld, young man; but ye'll have a fine time in the next one. I've nae doot." Even Author Sinclair calls his hero "a wet blanket, a killjoy, a spoilsport, a mollycoddle." "He had to be," explains Author Sinclair. You will probably not be sorry to learn that Kip was finally shot, in line of duty. Maggie May went right on lecturing, with another big talking point...