Word: snappish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey, the victor of Oregon, rode the popular Republican crest last week. When newsmen told him that Harold Stassen had once again declared-with a snappish no-that he would not run for Vice President on a ticket with Dewey, Governor Tom replied: "That's the biggest laugh I've had in a long time...
...enforced secrecy of the last three months, Britain's Princess Elizabeth had grown sullen and snappish from yearning to tell the neighbors all about Philip. Last week she was smiling radiantly as garden party guests clustered near her, hoping for a glimpse of her ring. "It's like turning a page in a book," she said...
...wartime friend of Frank's (Sterling Holloway). But the real meat of This Happy Breed is in the many plotless little human studies which Coward writes with such relish-Frank's advice to his bridegroom son, delivered in the privacy of the bathroom, just before the wedding; snappish, jagged family quarrels; a touching drunk scene between the two aging ex-soldiers; Ethel's silent, terrible way of absorbing bitter news. The real hero of the film is time, as designated on the face of every player, in the growth, bloom and final bleakness of a fruit tree...
...would organized labor, which held the keys to production and another spiral of wage boosts. But labor was restive; there were plenty of warnings about what it might do if prices rose all along the line. Snappish Walter Reuther said that his autoworkers would break every contract and reopen wage negotiations; the C.I.O.'s packinghouse workers gave notice that they would demand a cost-of-living bonus in their new wage contract talks next month...
Perhaps it was just a routine flare-up of personal pique, perhaps a touch of war-weariness had made the Palace Guardsmen snappish. Whatever the cause, stories of White House bitterness and intrigue crackled through Washington last week...