Word: snappishness
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THAT MAN FROM RIO. Poisoned darts and snappish Brazilian crocodiles are among the dangers faced by Jean-Paul Belmondo in hilarious spoof of all the next-earthquake-please action pictures...
...role of the dissenter seems not to be a happy one. Court observers notice that Harlan reads his opinions in an increasingly snappish tone. But he has never yet let his displeasure with the majority's reasoning disturb his own judicious approach to cases he is considering. Last month when Harvard University honored him with a doctorate, it saluted him as "a judge's judge...
...sodbusters in 1839, marry, multiply, get killed off along the way in drownings, fights, and wars, until at the end the only Prescott left is an octogenarian Debbie Reynolds. Many of the juiciest roles are just a drop in the Cinerama bucket. Thelma Ritter is a snappish delight as a man-hungry wagon woman. Walter Brennan is deliciously vile as a river pirate who uses his vamp-eyed daughter (Starlet Brigid Bazlen) as bait to lure fur-laden Trapper Jimmy Stewart to a temporary downfall at the bottom of a cave. Raymond Massey is, for what seems like the four...
...rules instead of exceptions." Even years later, when he and his men are caught and tortured by the Japanese in Malaya, he counsels them, ''Hang on to your lives," wondering as he does so if he should have said "courage," then swiftly dismissing the thought with a snappish phrase: "But that is all fable." Stuffed Symbols. Despite this, Conway finds himself teased, almost obsessed, by his childhood's most sensual memory-the vision of an Indian summerhouse full of perfectly stuffed birds of paradise, those rare and fabulous creatures about which it was once believed that because...
Clague's speech hit the Administration hard. Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, Clague's superior, issued a swift, snappish rebuttal: "The economic facts do not bear out such an assumption." Clague was telephoned, bawled out, and told to pull back. He and Goldberg worked out an "amplification." "I wish to make it clear that I was not making a prediction," said Clague. "only analyzing historic economic movements...