Word: annoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little things can annoy a great President. Last week President Hoover was thoroughly vexed by two occurrences...
...Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey, entered the Labor Party at home chiefly to annoy his father. He let a rumor go around for a while that he was engaged to marry Ramsay's Ishbel. For campaigning purposes he affected a fuzzy chinpiece, Byronic hair and gestures...
...Philadelphia Record did wickedly contrive and falsely and maliciously intend to bring him (McLean) into public disrepute and "to cause it to be suspected and believed that he attended a dinner at the Belgian Embassy in a disgraceful and drunken condition and that at such a dinner he had annoyed and shocked guests of the Belgian Ambassador and that the Belgian Ambassador was perplexed and ordered the plaintiff to leave in order to save his other guests from further embarrassment." In his declaration Plaintiff McLean said that "the plaintiff did not attend a dinner at the Belgian Embassy referred...
...Samuel Dodsworth was, perfectly, the American Captain of Industry, believing in the Republican Party, high tariff, and, so long as they did not annoy him personally, in prohibition and the Episcopal Church. He was the president of the Revelation Motor Company; he was a millionaire, though decidedly not a multimillionaire; his large house was on Ridge Crest, the most fashionable street in Zenith; he had some taste in etchings; he did not split many infinitives; and he sometimes enjoyed Beethoven. He would certainly (so the observer assumed) produce excellent motor cars; he would make impressive speeches to the salesmen...
...loans was mostly from corporations, not from banks, and as long as corporations can lend out their surpluses at up to 12% call money rates, the banks generally maintain that there is no way of keeping money out of Wall St. Mr. Warburg's statement did not much annoy the speculators, who were inclined to take it as an admission that they controlled the situation, however deplorable such control might be from Mr. Warburg's standpoint...