Word: tantruming
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Tantrum. Nearly everyone will recall the generously constructed Roberta Arnold of The First Year and Chicken Feed and her voice that twangs like a guitar. She is an anomalously successful actress, having neither beauty, restraint nor reverence for the canons of her craft. Yet she is aggressively effective, recklessly individual. She is Roberta Arnold. You either like her or you do not. Most people...
Francois Descamps, manager of Pugilist Carpentier: "At Michigan City, Ind., I discovered that two ringside tickets for the Carpentier-Gibbons fight (see Page 27) had been stolen from my pocket. Reports said that 'the excitable little Frenchman . . . went off in a tantrum,' that Frank Parker, fight promoter, escorted me to a quiet corner, learned of the disaster, restored quiet by offering two of his own ringside seats...