Word: mayhemic
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...staid, steady seller at Christmas time is Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. This Christmas, buyers had better beware. Victor last week marketed a new recording of Nutcracker-done by Spike Jones and his City Slickers. It was the musical mayhem...
Harry Truman, a seasoned politician, could expect such cracks from the opposition. He himself had declared that politics-as-usual were in order again. But a more serious point for President Truman was how much support he could expect from his own party. Southern Democrats stood ready to commit mayhem on the FEPC bill, other Democratic conservatives frowned on the unemployment-compensation measure. Harry Truman had a program; how hard would he fight...
Aristocratic, cantankerous Edgar Degas was a difficult man. He called his little ballet dancer models "rats," hit the ceiling every time he saw cut flowers, threatened mayhem if his dinner was late. He was especially touchy about his sculpture, which he fashioned over home made armatures, shaped and reshaped with a perfectionist's dissatisfaction. Renoir called him "a sculptor equal to the ancients...
...under oath, that he is "king of the quacks." He has practiced medicine for 40 years, the last ten in Philadelphia, without a degree. He has long been the untroubled butt of pained outcries by the Journal of the American Medical Association, of several legal charges and trials (for mayhem and dope peddling). He has been the subject of a movie (False Faces) in which a patient shoots a doctor after losing a suit for malpractice. Last month the Philadelphia Record began a series of articles on Quack Schireson's rise to Spruce Street and fortune. Last fortnight Pennsylvania...
Hanford stressed the spectator appeal of the sport, which combines some of the more spectacular features of hockey, basketball, football, and tennis, together with a dash of old-fashioned mayhem...