Word: behavior
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...utter disgust at the behavior of the Chamber of Deputies last week doughty old Premier Albert ("Tomcat") Sarraut exclaimed, "The financial hemorrhage continues!" Few hours later he rode off to present the resignation of his four-week-old Cabinet to President Albert Lebrun...
...Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promptly wired his apologies: "The insult offered by this actor to the Mexican cadet corps has embarrassed and shocked the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer organization fully as deeply as it has the Mexican people. As a result of this actor's deplorable behavior, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has removed him . . . not only from Viva Villa but . . . canceled his long term contract...
...given the youngsters a funny, often callous play about two-dimensional adolescence, in the guaranteed tradition of Booth Tarkington. Present are the malapropisms ("hyperficial"), the big words for little feelings, the emotional roller-coasting from top to bottom to top again in a minute flat, adult poses and childish behavior...
...early life except his mother, who kept trying to get him married when he was having too good a time as a bachelor. He practiced worldliness "with an almost religious decorum," and discovering the perennial truth that the gentleman is an almost extinct species, wrote a manual of best behavior (The Courtier) which still makes later books of etiquette seem crude...
...fear there is and once more high finance exhibits its colossal stupidity and ostrich-like behavior when faced with a new situation. Whether the failure of investment to keep pace with the general upswing has been due to calculated sabotage or to sincere, though groundless, fear of consequences, it is impossible to say. If this policy results in the loss of the Securities Act in order to attain recovery, then there will be one more important monument to the blundering incompetence of the bankers, whose vision is as narrow as their power is great...