Word: sulk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baruch's thesis is that most children's troubles arise from their mothers' and fathers' worries. Children, she believes, always sense such worries, feel insecure themselves. When a mother worries because her children disobey, sulk or fight, Mrs. Baruch brings her to school, lets her observe other children and find out that disobedience, sulking, fighting are normal childish behavior. Result: The mother goes home feeling more tolerant toward herself and children, more serene...
When a symphony orchestra has been slapped around by a heavyweight conductor for a few seasons, it gets very proud of its bumps and bruises. When the top-flight conductor resigns, and a bantamweight takes his place, the orchestra is apt to sulk. In the past few years two of the finest U. S. symphony orchestras have had this letdown: Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony (Toscanini to Barbirolli); the Philadelphia Orchestra (Stokowski to Eugene Ormandy). The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke...
...mere moral indignation, but he vented it so resoundingly as to rid New York of a few petty pillagers of the till and to sweep himself into the governor's chair. During the war days, when he was one moment writing articles and the next going off to sulk because Mr. Root would not let him lead a picturesque cavalry squadron to suicide in France, his politics was mere moral indignity. But whenever he abandoned a cause, he washed his hands of it quietly, and never failed to preserve the waters of its ablution, for which sometimes...
...breaking his candidacial silence at Des Moines and stole its share of the headlines next morning (see col. i). Democratic headquarters had repeatedly been told that a good word from the Brown Derby would swing a million votes to the party. Republican headquarters have counted on Al Smith's sulk to turn New England to Hoover. After the Albany convention it became known that Air. Smith would campaign for his party's ticket in Massachusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut, New York, New Jersey...
Achilles was a great man until he sulked in his tent. It is small wonder that the voters of Massachusetts have deserted a cause whose leaders are capable of such absurd gestures as a transcontinental sulk. Mrs. Peabody has neither faith, hope, nor charity. Anyway she has gone South. The birds are following...