Word: waspish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru grew increasingly waspish to reporters and his own subordinates, and could not stand being contradicted. He angrily insisted that he had to do everything himself or it would not be done, and he spent as much time on unimportant household details as on national problems. He suddenly began to look older...
...aristocratic Whistler would have been crushed by something far smaller than a telegram. His Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, as Whistler titled the portrait of his mother, achieved the sentimental distinction of gracing a 3? stamp. With stamp collectors, at least, the waspish dandy had become an immortal...
...Fortnight ago, 32 employees of the talks and public-affairs department resigned in a huff, charging that Preview Commentary, a sometimes waspish radio program, had been canceled because of pressure from John Diefenbaker's Tory government. The show restored, they went back, but not before a parliamentary committee heard these charges of high-level political pressure...
...from a 4-H club. And to avoid frequent scene changes, he transferred the action in Acts I and III to the outside of the Polka saloon, constructed a typical Hollywood false-front street-all of it heavily anchored down to prevent the set from blowing away in the waspish mountain winds that swirl into the amphitheater every evening...
...time." By the end of the fiesta at Pamplona, Spain in the summer of 1925, Broom had folded, Loeb had all but parted from his mistress. His novel was still unpublished, and the friendship with Ernest Hemingway had so cooled that Hemingway would shortly bury it with his waspish portrayal of the Loeb-inspired Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises...