Word: annoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most typewriter mistakes are unlucky. They keep you after hours. Annoy your employers. Even threaten the securest position, when long continued. Noise . . . the rackety chatter of many typewriters is the treacherous breeder of mistakes...
Insolent Clerks Sirs: I am a subscriber since 1923 at Panama, C. Z. I have always abstained from writing letters that more or less annoy you besides taking up space in your glorious magazine. But the culmination of rage sizzles for expression within me. On p. 14, Oct. 1, issue in third column, under caption "Relief" appears: 1,200 tons of food 3,490 tons of misc. supplies 10 days provisions for 100,000 people, etc. All to be distributed to the poor devils, victims of the tremendous hurricane in Porto Rico. I can imagine the anxiety of those people...
...Manhattan again, he started out to write for the Clipper, famed, defunct, theatrical paper. When he left, he said, "Now I'll be a producer," a remark which was supposed to annoy the editor but instead only made him laugh. Jake Horowitz became a producer of publicity for the Shuberts, Mark Klaw and Richard Herndon. At this racket, he was good enough to make $3,000 which he speedily sank in his first production, The Romantic Age by A. A. Milne, a flop. He heard someone comment on the name above "Presents" on the program, and changed...
...opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman to send an atheist Christian propaganda. After so doing, Atheist Smith was found guilty of sending letters with intent to annoy. The judges sentenced him to $100 fine or 30 days in the workhouse. Atheist Smith paid the fine, but appealed their verdict...
...come down here every Tuesday and annoy me," warned Mayor Hague...