Word: misbehavior
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Despite their shocking action, the self-assured Northwesterner played brilliantly, was 4 up after 18 holes, quelled Abbott's courageous challenge, took the match on the 33rd green, 4 & 3. Whereupon the gallery wrote a new chapter in sporting misbehavior. They ignored the Champion although they scrambled for his ball, lifted Abbott to their shoulders, carried...
...unions. Then a group of Columbia professors quit a college branch of the Union because it was too Red. Last month the A. F. of T.'s executive council, an anti-Stalinist group elected at the Federation's last convention, made nine charges of misbehavior against Local 5, ordered it to show cause this month why it should not be expelled. One of the charges: "tactics and practices inimical to democracy...
...original of Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses. His autobiographical volumes, As I Was Going Down Sackville Street and Tumbling in the Hay, tell of his indiscreet youth, his love of laughter and low company, his delight in stories of his own and other people's misbehavior. One such got him into a libel suit which cost him ?900. But when Patrick Kavanagh, young Irish poet, published The Green Fool (TIME, Feb. 27), fun-loving Dr. Gogarty could not see the joke. In it Kavanagh told of visiting Dublin as a tramp with literary aspirations, calling on Gogarty...
...parties to come and discuss the third city's financial plight. Mayor Wilson revealed that his deficit now tunes up to some $40,000,000. Happier news for Mayor Wilson last week was the quashing, by Common Pleas Judge Harry S. McDevitt, of 21 indictments charging him with misbehavior in office...
...unusually high humidity readings. (In Washington, 92°, a woman telephoned the Weather Bureau, asked "Where will I have to go to cool off? New Hampshire?" "Sorry," replied the Weather Bureau, "it's 90 in New Hampshire.") The Act of God which produced these extraordinary phenomena was the misbehavior, for no apparent reason, of high and low pressure areas. These areas usually proceed across the U. S., from west to east, in a stately procession so that the weather changes every two or three days, cool winds from the moving highs, which are generally accompanied by fair weather, blowing...