Word: kowtow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reputedly the first woman ever to smoke in public in the U. S. She demanded $25 for newspaper interviews-and got it. She went into telegraph offices and insisted on dictating her wires. Even when, an old woman down on her luck, she went to Hollywood, she refused to kowtow, would ask world-famous movie stars whether they "were connected with the cinema." In no time she had alienated everybody who might have helped her: an awed Alexander Woollcott likened her to "a sinking ship firing on its rescuers." Though Stella Campbell published many of Shaw's letters...