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...said to have used him to frighten away unwanted prospects. His writing style, which in terms of liquors was a decidedly pink drink, bubbled up in the Times's drama department, where he acquired an unsmiling assistant named George S. Kaufman. When Kaufman eventually satirized him as the waspish subject of The Man Who Came to Dinner, Woollcott declared: "The thing's a terrible insult and I've decided to swallow...
Lucky Lover. With The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo became French writer No. 1, but his home life took a bad turn. Worn out with childbearing, Adèle became languid. Hugo's best friend, waspish Critic Sainte-Beuve, offered her his sympathy, spread the story that he was her lover. Hugo believed his wife innocent but began to get around a little himself. At the rehearsal of one of his plays he noticed that when Actress Juliette Drouet read the line, "Ah, what is it that fills the whole heart?" she turned "her large dark eyes...
...Paul Smith wrote a sizzling letter of correction to the New York Daily News's Washington Correspondent John O'Donnell. He was sore at O'Donnell's waspish cracks at OWI's proposed budget and his ribbing Archibald MacLeish about an OWI dinner at Washington's Carlton Hotel (TIME, Oct. 5). "You're nuts, John," wrote Paul. "Mr. MacLeish had nothing to do with the dinner check. It's nobody's damned business. I paid it. The dinner was $7.50 a plate-not $6 as reported. The total was $369.55." Last...
After a final five-and-a-half-hour wrangle between Argentina's waspish Eusebio Gomez, and the U.S.'s bland Carl Bernhardt Spaeth, Argentina's amendment was rejected (only Chile abstaining). With what grace it could, Argentina asked that its "reservations" be noted...
...Democratic candidate for President last week disdained to answer the challenge in Wendell Willkie's G. O. P acceptance speech. President Roosevelt instead chose waspish Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to sting back Mr. Willkie. Some Ickes stingers...