Word: phobias
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...back-stabbing monster who plots everyone's destruction. She enrages the servants, drives the husband to drink, wrecks his career, ruins his marriage, makes a shrew of his wife, a hypochondriac of his child, precipitates a village scandal. Her trouble, which is sex, finally unmasks her; her phobia, which is birds, finally causes her death...
...fear of that which reveals intimately an insight into our innermost feelings. Let us rather rejoice that we can continually experience through the music of a sincerely inspired man those vital emotions of love, sorrow, and joy. Let us not be swept along with this current to a Tschaikowsky-phobia, which must inevitably vanish and restore the great Russian master to a deserved high place among music's immortals. Andrew Baggaley...
...Conceiving a phobia against Mickey Mouse, Brisbane wanted it thrown out, said it was humorless, a waste of space. When Gauvreau balked, Brisbane roared: "Children can be better occupied reading Sir James Jeans about the world we live in. Throw that rat out!" Too old for Mirror journalism, Brisbane one day received a wire from San Simeon: "Dear Arthur, you are now getting out the worst news paper in the United States...
...hotel background (Bemelmans once managed a small swanky restaurant on Manhattan's upper East side) comes the story of Gabriel, the perfect maitre d'hotel, who revealed his true genius at the super-swanky birthday party for Mrs. George Washington Kelly, the story of another maitre whose phobia was The Blue Danube. Among minor classics of travel literature is Bemelmans' account of a small island off the coast of France, where Madame Clamart, because of an unfortunate experience with a U. S. sailor, barred all Americans from her cafe...
...short, swarthy, 47-year-old immigrant with curly black hair, smoky eyes, a terrific Bronx-Jewish accent, and a terrific publicity phobia, he is married, the father of two children, Jeanette and Mildred, lives in The Bronx. Legends about Max Salop in the book business are matched only by Sam Goldwyn legends in the movies...