Word: tantruming
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German national, onetime resident of Sunnyside, L.I., onetime Communist ringmaster in the U.S., who had been jailed in Britain since he was carried, kicking and screaming like a child in a tantrum, from the Polish motor-ship Batory, bound for Gdynia (TIME...
Purace's tantrum was soon over. On the volcano's slopes next day, rescue crews found nine of the 17 bodies. The others had been buried deep under the lava...
Only six of the 25 children she studied ever let off emotional steam through the safety valve of temper tantrum. They were "good children" who bottled up their emotions, cracked up later when they were about to finish school and face the world. Vienna-trained Dr. Tietze did not live to see her report published; on May 7, she died, at 39, from cancer...
...vacation in Italy, the terrible-tempered 81-year-old had kind words or a joke for everyone at rehearsal. The Maestro had his one inevitable flare-up of the day, this time over the absence without leave of a couple of trumpeters. The guest pianist watched the little tantrum, then, turning towards his wife and friends in the studio, wigwagged his eyebrows and giggled. For the soloist was a man who calls Toscanini "Maestro" to his face, but "Papa" when he's not around...
...letter made it clear . . . that the U.S. for the moment is in short pants and that until it gets back to adult ways there is nothing to do but be gently intolerant of its behavior. It is not easy to have any other attitude toward America in a tantrum, there is so much of ourselves in its people...