Word: rancorous
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What is really important is the fact that Messrs. Lardner and Kaufman show themselves to be irreverent Boswells of Tin Pan Alley. They know, for instance, all about its soiled, impertinent goddesses. One of these creatures, played with frightening rancor by Jean Dixon, scourges her husband with wisecracks because his "Paprika, You're the Spice of My Life" is the only song hit he has written in three years. "That's the place for you," she says, upon learning that the Hall of Fame is devoted to "Busts." When he sings her his new "Montana Moon" she stares...
...record. It lasted only an hour and a half. During that time the nominations of eight members of the new Cabinet were confirmed. The names of the two holdover officers-Andrew William Mellon and James John Davis-had not been submitted by President Hoover. These omissions, and an ancient rancor, caused the Senate to adopt a resolution by Tennessee's loquacious McKellar directing the Judiciary Committee to report: 1) whether any Cabinet member may legally hold office after the expiration of the term of the President who appointed him; 2) whether Andrew W. Mellon is disqualified as Secretary...
Last week the question suddenly loomed: Will Commander Evangeline leave the Army? She sailed last week for the U. S. She carried with her the rancor of her brother, whom she had not once seen during the fight about his office, and whose wife had written to her: "For the time being you have attained your end. Will you not now leave him in peace...
About Prohibition, Governor Ritchie was not nearly so outspoken as Senator Reed. The Ritchie point is states' rights; the Reed, political rancor. Yet it was after the Ritchie speech that Toastmaster Davis saw fit to depart from routine to "restore harmony." The U. S. people, said he, were divided in three classes, not two, on Prohibition?the third being "those who believe the present law is the best way to deal with this great governmental experiment, at present...
...through the bass horn of its editorial columns: "It is a sign of mental infirmity that the pacifist opponents of the R. O. T. C. never try to relate their rhetoric to plausibility or probability, to conditions, facts or prospects or to anything resembling cause and effect. They have rancor and timidity, physical flinching, addled reasoning, suspicion, pompous illusions and gross fears, but never anything that can be laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth...