Word: stickler
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...most prominent member of the Moscow International devoted to fomenting the World Revolution, it is doubtful in a strictly legal sense whether Comrade Stalin has a right to permit himself to stay in Russia under the pledges given Washington, but neither the Dictator nor the President is a legal stickler. What is certain is that no great Red could, under the treaty pledges Moscow has given, stay abroad and foment Revolution if he were not officially an outcast from Russia...
...Unless it proposed to separate husband & wife at court dinners, the Danish Foreign Office would apparently have to choose between insulting the U. S. by seating its representative as Kammerjunkerinde, or insulting the envoys of other nations by seating the Kammerjunker above them. Minister Owen soon solved this diplomatic stickler to her own satisfaction by announcing that in her professional life she would continue to be Ruth Bryan Owen...
...Mitchell last week recalled that Golfer Rockefeller, a stickler for rules was slightly perturbed one day when his physician teed his ball a full foot in front of the markers. With painstaking care. Rockefeller teed his own ball exactly on a line with the red marker, dryly observed: "I always play the full course, Doctor." Equally hateful of waste, he once drove a brand new ball into the rough, hunted it for ten minutes, finally asked his caddy what his cronies would do in a similar situation. The caddy retorted that they would look for a minute, then drop...
Ostensibly Sir Austen had been speaking on the bill of Rear Admiral Sir Murray Sueter to replace the "squirrels" of the Imperial Defense Committee with a Ministry of Defense to coordinate Navy, Air Force and Army under a single Minister distinct from the Prime Minister. A parliamentary stickler, Sir Austen argued against this private bill which thereupon was withdrawn; argued for a similar reform by the Government, thus associating himself with His Majesty's Government in debate. Yet in so doing Sir Austen delivered the maximum blow to "Bumbler Baldwin." After Sir Austen resumed his seat, the House...
...Lyons-Malamuth version is reported to be considerably less cautious than that presented in Russia. As staged last week the play includes a ludicrous cartoon of a small, shrill, Leninist stickler who accuses Ludmilla of "right deviations" and insists on "liquidating the canary." Ludmilla defines a bourgeois thus: "A bourgeois is a person who's got something that someone else wants...