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Word: snarls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...male. Doubtless, temperamental Actress Campbell could be impossible, but tough Playwright Shaw could at times seem inhuman. These were love letters without a love affair; as Stella Campbell said, she and G.B.S. were two "lustless lions at play." And for every coo there was a not-always-brilliant snarl. When she first read Pygmalion, she sniffed: "You made Liza a cockney just to torment me," and he snapped back: "I'm surprised you find it so difficult to be common." But Mrs. Pat must have minded his use of dialect less than his turn for didacticism. Where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Offering on Broadway | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Shocked & Gratified. Actually, Phillips' case looked so good that a settlement has been in the works since 1955, only to be blocked by one legal snarl after another. Recently, Chairman Kirby decided to break the impasse, at least as far as he was concerned, by offering a separate $1,100,000 settlement that would free him of all liability. At first he ran into strong objections from Murchison and also from Mrs. Young, who fired off a telegram that she was "shocked" at the offer. But Kirby argued that a settlement had to be made sooner or later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Bull's-Eye Against Allegheny | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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