Word: annoying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flecks of confusion are dispelled. It is shown that most of the voters are beer drinkers, and that an even greater number favour the introduction of the golden beverage into the dining halls. The answers to the other questions indicate, in general, little beside a coyly wayward tendency to annoy waitresses, and an astounding ability to vanish under the table on slight provocation...
They do their work most thoroughly and with a goodly will. Without them what could we do with the fruit skins and the swill? They are the benefactors of mankind and play a heavy part, Though they annoy us in the morning with their very early start...
...decision handed down last week by the U. S. Supreme Court showed that Old Man Venner is still at it. He knows what courts are for-rich old Clarence Venner does. They exist for the purpose of enabling a smart fellow to annoy his neighbors, especially when, as in these days, his neighbors are big corporations...
Authoress Undset's latest novel stands a very slim chance of being put on the Pope's Index Librorum Prohibitorum. If not exactly a manual for Roman Catholics, The Burning Bush should please Catholic palates and doubtless annoy any heffling Protestant literate enough to read it. A sequel to The Wild Orchid, The Burning Bush carries the story of Paul Selmer from young married days to a ripe and disillusioned middle...
...degree murder. The picture, how ever, proceeds to show the audience its error, in the courtroom. A novelty is Prosecutor John Miljan's jeering speech: "There is no such law as the unwritten law. . . . Our legislators do not say : 'This is the law but we will not annoy the governor by writing it down.' ... A woman's honor is her own and the shortest word in the English language will protect any woman's honor, and that word...