Word: firebrand
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...they could agree on religious tolerance and Prohibition. "I do wish they'd give us a rest in the discussions about Mrs. Willebrandt," said Mr. Burton. Said Mr. Baker: "When Mrs. Firebrand from Washington gets into a ministers' meeting and flails the energies of the pastors to go into the pulpits . . . I don't wonder that Congressman Burton and others pray to be delivered from...
Observers marked as significant that famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, firebrand Secretary of the Miners' Federation, and perhaps one of the chief provokers of the British General Strike (TIME, May 17, 1926), is now so chastened by the failure of his 100% Red projects that last week he assisted President Smith with the ejections...
...Occidentals are aware of Mustafa Nahass Pasha, a statesman who greatly resembles in appearance plump, black-mustachioed King Fuad I of Egypt. Politically the King and Pasha are poles apart?the Sovereign a British puppet, the statesman a firebrand Egyptian Nationalist. Therefore it is significant that, last week, King Fuad gave the Prime Ministry of Egypt to Mustafa Nahass Pasha...
...such sumptuous luxuriance as to stagger confirmed sybarites. When the poet who shattered Duse's heart reclines upon the velvet coverings of his fantastic bed, a painting of himself as a leper leers down at him in a manner which he is said to find "exquisite." When the firebrand who seized Fiume strides out upon his lawn, the dreadnaught Puglia, placed there high and dry by the grateful Italian Government, affords him a milieu in which to pace the quarter deck of his extravagant soul. The home of d' Annunzio is a nestling spot for the prodigious...
...Play Jury suddenly came to life and was delegated by the District Attorney to inspect They Knew What they Wanted, Desire Under the Elms, The Firebrand. The first two were passed and a recommendation of deletion in one scene of The Firebrand offered. The deletion was made...