Word: petulante
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Concerning your editorial on Republican foreign policy--I wish the CRIMSON would discard its mantle of petulant and partisan criticism of Republican policy. I'm sure it was a dreary day for the CRIMSON when funny-boy Stevenson was defeated by a popular here who did not have direct experience...
Handsome Singer Keel, who appears to be a sort of Nelson Eddy with muscles, and is currently Hollywood's leading graduate of the Broadway school of musi-comedy, has not only a fine chesty baritone but the chest to go with it. As a blonde actress who plays a...
Victor Mature, as the Greek slave Demetrius, is believable in a role similar to many he has played before. Jay Robinson, however, is scarcely plausible as a crotchety and petulant Caligula. While many have thought this emperor a monster, Robinson makes him a caricature of a contemporary egghead.
With weeping fits, fainting spells, petulant threats to resign, and swift strokes of summary statesmanship, Iran's Premier Mossadegh for nearly two turbulent years had manipulated all before him-the Parliament, the popular will, and the earnest but weak Shah. Last week, the young (33) Shah of Shahs spilled...
Americans are beginning to recognize his face: a pudgy, petulant face which has begun to appear in official Soviet photographs next to Stalin's aging, feline mask. Malenkov was once even empowered to affix the dread signature of Stalin to certain documents, with a special rubber stamp. And more...