Word: spats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Late in 1931, Tony Gaudio had a spat with Director Lewis Milestone during the filming of The Front Page, walked off the set in a huff. For a year he couldn't get a job or even an interview despite his standing as one of the top cameramen in town. When Brother Jack Warner, whom he calls "Mr. Warner Brothers," finally hired him to shoot screen tests, Tony discovered the cold shoulder came from a whispering campaign that his eyesight was failing-the kiss of death for any cameraman. The rumor finally dispelled, Tony is now well back...
Churchill fought on, and the annoyance of peace-sluggish Britons, who preferred the appeasers, turned to hatred. At first they had heckled him, howled him down, spat at him, struck at him. "Now," says Biographer Kraus, "no dog would take a scrap from his hand." He grew tired of his own voice, tired of his own "everlasting prophecies, and still more thoroughly tired of the awful consistency with which they were fulfilled." But one fact obsessed him-London was defended by only seven anti-aircraft guns...
...hecklers were tough and loud. For miles Wendell Willkie, his smile set, drove past surly, scowling, derisive faces. Men in their working clothes leaning out of factory windows booed louder & louder. Snaggle-toothed old women stood with feet planted wide, arms out, thumbs down in the ancient gesture. Viragoes spat and jeered. Men with smut and grease on their dungarees shook their fists, bellowed epithets. On through the dingy streets rolled the shiny, new 1941-model cars, past Toledo Machine & Tool Co., the Willys-Overland plant. Outside the heavy-meshed "strike fences" stood mocking, spindle-legged children, hard-muscled...
...When Spring Parade's Franz Josef cozily wrinkles his nose at a pretty peasant girl (Deanna Durbin) sometime circa 1896, he means that he is going to make sure she gets the drummer (Robert Cummings) in the Emperor's band with whom she has had a nasty spat. This is the essence of the plot around which bounding little Producer Joe Pasternak has molded installment eight in the endless success story of Deanna Durbin...
Dictators have bulletproof railway cars and last week Carol Hohenzollern, royal dictator of Rumania for the last two and a half years, barely escaped alive from his country as lead spat against the armored sides of his speeding private train. The loyalty to this Hohenzollern of a simple Rumanian stationmaster at Timisoara was all that saved Carol II from the wrath of his bitter people...