Word: petulante
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"The President, in his Victory Dinner speech, said the shouting against him had broken forth again, as it did in the early days of the New Deal, 'and from substantially the same elements of opposition.' This is balderdash. The opposition to his plan to bring the judiciary into...
Only one crackerjack new cartoonist has emerged in the campaign, and only one crackerjack new cartoon character. The first created the second. Early in the year, lean, bushy-haired Clarence Daniel Batchelor sat down at his board in the New York News office, drew a petulant, pot-bellied little man...
(4 of 6) yield to Japan's demand for parity? "We never have," replied Mr. Davis. Then with a diplomat's sense of the danger of saying "No," he hastily added: "But I'd rather you did not ask that." Jarless. The third member of the U...
Co-operation was what no Great Power would give Ethiopia last week except in words (see p. 18). The blatant announcement last fortnight that Haile Selassie had conceded subsoil rights in half his empire to British Promoter Francis Rickett and his mysterious backers (TIME, Sept. 9) was universally called by...
Escapade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the result of superimposing upon the pattern of Viennese waltz-time romance the kind of highly contemporary comedy of which William Powell is currently Hollywood's ablest exponent. That the result is mildly entertaining is thanks partly to Powell, partly to Director Robert Z...