Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Action were slapstick smacks in which he called his enemies female camels, unfecund sows, burst dogs, humpbacked cats, circumcised hermaphrodites. In a courtroom squabble Daudet once screamed "liar" at an opponent so long & loud that his nose began to bleed. L'Action bragged: "We do not want to upset the Republic; we want to cut its throat. We are not a political party; we are a conspiracy...
...certain to be enacted again. Winston Churchill had flown back to Britain and this week would again bulge up in Parliament to face, and probably outface, his critics. Though he had risked the flat statement "Egypt will be held," even the speedy fall of Egypt was not likely to upset his Prime Ministership...
Injury. In Los Angeles, George D. Hauptmann filed suit against Union Oil Co. for $16,250 damages, including loss of a tooth. He lost it, he charged, when the oil company upset him so much that he ground his teeth trying to keep his temper...
...still be that Billy Mitchell was wrong in his final estimate of the power of the military airplane. But he has been devastatingly right so far. In the greatest upset in warfare since Frenchmen first routed Britons with artillery (at the battle of Formigny in 1450) he had picked in advance the winner of every round...
...plainly the chief culprit. It upset playwrights, rattled producers, discouraged audiences. Not a single new show produced after Pearl Harbor was a hit. But (and for this the war wasn't entirely to blame) not a single new show deserved to be a hit. Comedies, farces, fantasies—the theater of entertainment and escape—showed as little merit as the theater of ideas. Big names—John Steinbeck, Maxwell Anderson, George Kaufman, Clifford Odets, Ben Hecht, Marc Connelly, Paul Vincent Carroll, Emlyn Williams—revealed all the ineptitude of nonentities. During the entire season, not one U.S. playwright produced a good original...