Word: snubbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the Soviet bloc began to snub and boycott Trygve Lie two years ago, the U.N. has been without a truly effective secretary general. Last week, as part of its diplomatic new look, Russia at last agreed with its fellow members on the Security Council on a successor to Lie, who submitted his resignation last fall...
Innocent Eye. Hélene Noris is a lonely, wide-eyed girl with her snub nose pressed flat against the windowpane of life. Her widowed father is a stuffy businessman parceling his time between his shops, his stocks and his political ambitions. When Hélene wanders to the kitchen for companionship, the maid shoos her out, tells her: "Masters are masters and servants are servants! Society makes these rules." To give her life a dash of drama, Hélene pretends, when in school, not to know her lessons-just to hear her classmates titter and her teachers upbraid...
...employed him as private secretary, equerry and Keeper of the Privy Purse, and in the last year of his life (1935) he was rewarded with a peerage. Ponsonby could speak bluntly or subtly to all kinds of men, and he could ride a horse as smartly as he could snub an upstart. But he was no stick; he dreamed of writing film scripts and was "always interested in the possibility of raising King John's treasure from the Wash...
...otherwise it would look as if she was an ordinary Duchess." When he made a helpful suggestion about a maid of honor, it came back with the words: "The Queen has yet to learn that Capt. Ponsonby has anything to do with the Maids of Honor." Much the same snub was inflicted on an earnest clergyman who tried to rouse Victoria's sympathy for the poor by mentioning a house where seven had to use one bed. "Had I been one of them," observed the Queen, "I would have slept on the floor...
Died. Andrew Jackson Higgins, 65, rough & ready boss of Higgins, Inc., designers and makers of the snub-nosed landing craft that saw service in every theater of World War II; of complications resulting from stomach ulcers; in New Orleans. Bluff, tough "A.J." personally supervised every phase of his business, posted a sign in the plant: "Any body caught stealing tools from this yard won't get fired-he'll go to the hospital . . . A.J.H." With World War II, Higgins skyrocketed with war orders to an annual volume of $120 million...