Word: snappish
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...often neglected Professor's Daughter and Beautiful Lady Scientist department that the film excels. Joan Fontaine plays a World-Renowned Psychiatrist with fierce regard for tradition: she is snappish and mean to Walter Pidgeon, the World's Greatest Scientist right up to the moment she is eaten by the shark. Balance is provided by blonde Barbara Eden, as cute a canape as ever broke a giant squid's heart. Tradition must sometimes be broken if an art form is to grow: she plays Pidgeon's secretary, not his daughter. Her function is to proceed about...
...since mid-November has a Winchell line appeared in the New York Mirror, his base paper, or in the 140-odd other U.S. papers that take his column. On Nov. 17, in Winchell's space, the Mirror carried the byline of Winchell's customary summer replacement, slight, snappish Lee ("New York Confidential") Mortimer. With the shift went an explanation : "WW is ill with a staph infection. He will resume his column when he feels better. Meanwhile, Lee Mortimer's column will appear in this space." But as the weeks wore on, even this vague promise vanished, leaving...
...read them all; only two, both fantasies, seem to have been brewed in the same kettle. The longest story, A Family Matter, has everything needed to make a full-length novel, but in its 44 pages it tells a good deal more than most novels about family life. A snappish, unblinkered realist comes to visit his three sons, all married and none of them fond of the old man. His avowed purpose is to make up his mind with which one of them he will live. From this homely, commonplace situation, Elliott contrives a remarkably interesting series of confrontations that...
...talk about it he did, in snappish tones edged with determination. Asked about the reasons for his party's defeat, he pointed to two failures: the G.O.P.'s failure to get its campaign rolling soon enough (he referred to Republicans as "they"), and the voters' failure to understand the dangers of excessive federal spending. He had warned about the "spender-wing" of the Democratic Party in his campaign speeches, he said, but "apparently that didn't make any great impression" on the voters. "I don't know whether they did this thing deliberately," he went...
...year would "constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon." But to approving readers of her three-a-week column of political analysis, "On the Record" (147 papers), durable Dorothy Thompson was a snappish combination of Cassandra and Joan of Arc, the first and finest of political newshens...