Word: tantruming
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...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's Talk to the People. Every Sunday afternoon since 1941, over city-owned WNYC, the Little Flower has rasped and ricocheted his way through 30 minutes of the most unorthodox chatter on the air. He left sentences dangling, blithely mispronounced words, skipped syllables when he tantrum-well felt like it. He growled at chiselers, sang sarcastically at enemies, squeaked angrily at hecklers. He read the comics, with expression, and told housewives how to prepare oxtail ragout. All this made lively listening...
...than a week, weighing its ideas, sifting its language, arguing it with many an adviser. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson had strongly favored the veto. But many a White House adviser had argued even more strongly against it. When one of them pointed out that Congressional tempers were already nearly tantrum-taut, the President expressed doubt that there was any use trying to get along with Congress any longer...
...over his strangled wife. All efforts to find his alibi prove useless. The bartender (Andrew Tombes) has never seen her. Neither has the randy little drummer (Elisha Cook Jr.) who ogled her all evening. Neither has the Latin singer (Carmen Miranda's sister, Aurora), who threw a jealous tantrum because she and the Lady were wearing duplicate hats. Henderson is convicted of murder...
Much of Over Twenty-One is decidedly vin Gordonaire, but it is smoothly decanted. Skimpy scenes are saved by funny gags and shrewd "business." (When the Hollywood producer gets into a tantrum on the phone he stops, ceremoniously hands his secretary the receiver, snaps: "Hang up on him.") As Paula, Actress Gordon purrs, shrugs, grimaces, ladles out her syrup, squirts her poison with enormous verve. George S. Kaufman directs traffic with his expert eye for preventing the wrong kind of snarl and encouraging the right kind of collision...
...another tantrum Barnes last week closed his museum and art school after his ration board insisted he convert to coal heat. Coal smoke would smudge his paintings, Barnes said, adding that the ration board was "semiliterate" and "asked me if I ever beat my wife...