Word: tantruming
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...luxury of a bad temper, indulged in regularly by conductors of great orchestras in. the winter, is something which most second-string, summertime maestros cannot afford. An exception is dark little José Iturbi, explosive Spanish conductor-pianist. Last summer Iturbi had one tantrum in Cleveland because his audiences munched hot dogs, another in Philadelphia because photographers' flashbulbs annoyed him (TIME, Sept. 7). In Philadelphia again this summer as leader of the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Iturbi waited until last week, an exceptionally hot one in the breezeless park, to go into his annual...
Temperamental, volatile, they loved and quarreled violently. In one tantrum, she reported his crimes. He admitted his guilt and went to prison for having contributed to the delinquency of a minor. She wrote to him during the eleven months of his confinement and after he was paroled she went back to live with him in Indio, Calif, where he, a skilled electrician, onetime technical chief of Radio Station KFI, had found work as electrical foreman on an aqueduct...
...whole "Leipzig incident" was a Nazi fiction or nightmare. The visit of Baron von Neurath to London was expected to reduce feverish international wrangling over Spain to a cool, almost a British temperature-and then suddenly in Berlin last week the Führer summoned his Cabinet, had his tantrum...
...Temper tantrums are one of the most common forms of naughtiness. The youngster works himself into a rage. He yells, stamps his feet, rolls on the floor, strikes at everyone in reach, curses, bites, bangs his head against the wall. Best way of curing a child of tantrums is to leave him alone during his spells, never argue or give in to him. No child has ever become sick or died in a tantrum, says Dr. Kanner...
...lived ever since. He conducted it in the U. S. 32 years ago. The visit was notorious. Though his contract called for $4,000 per week, he had constant trouble with his creditors. He ranted at Manhattan's noise, Manhattan's food. He had his biggest tantrum because a laundry ruined his dress shirts...