Word: uppityness
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White Tie and Tails (Universal-International) takes place in the never-never land of romantic farce. It is an agile, simpleminded frolic about a butler, an heiress and a gambler. Dan Duryea, whose pinched, deep-frozen face has heretofore made him particularly suited to playing down-at-heel mugs, is...
John Johnson had been a soldier in Europe, but in Minden the whites had figured he was a "bad nigger"; he got drunk and was uppity. Three weeks ago, a white woman said she saw him and a young Negro named Albert Harris trying to get into her house."She...
The 2nd, with rehearsals in Africa and Sicily, landed in Normandy last year and roared into the ruptured German lines at Saint-L6. The closing phase of the war was an armored force field day. All of them - the 2nd, the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th, the 6th, the 7th...
Lady Astor, the House of Commons' uppity, downright, Virginia-born viscountess, vowed that not even V-E day would wean her from teetotalism: "Sometimes I am tempted, but I do not fall."
But this explanation did not hold water. Actually, Britain wishes that it did have a dependable bloc of Empire votes; the four dominions can be as uppity as so many hogs on ice. In any case, nobody knows better than Joseph Stalin that the number of votes in the impotent...