Word: annoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last Gentleman (Twentieth Century). For crotchety old Cabot Barr (George Arliss) life in his Barrville manor house is not all beer and skittles. His collection of 106 clocks, his fancy for stuffed peacocks on his lawn, annoy his son Judd (Donald Meek), a small, bald, middle-aged lowlife. The Barrs-son, daughter, two daughters-in-law, granddaughter and adopted grandson-are introduced in The Last Gentleman at a family memorial service for a deceased niece which Cabot Barr arranges because he is not, he says, "the sort of man who gives Christmas parties." They reassemble at Cabot Barrs summer camp...
...chiseling there was, particularly on prices, and enough to annoy the responsible lumberman who lived up to the code. Prices were revised in July, some up, some down. The upped prices hit the hardwood men's best customer, the automobile industry...
Ransom Eli Olds is the only man in the U. S. who has two automobiles named after him. As early as 1887 he made in his family's machine shop a steamer which he tested on the streets of Lansing, Mich. before dawn so that he would not annoy his horse-driving neighbors. Four years later he sold to a firm in India the first automobile ever to be exported from the U. S. By 1899 he was building the first factory in the U. S. designed solely for automobile production. In a few years the early curve-dash...
...tremolo. . . . I should not permit him to play dizzy chromatics, or anything else, during the Lessons and prayers. What is to be done? Tell him in the gentlest, but most priestly manner, that all these tricks of the jazz radio organist are utterly out of place in church, and annoy everybody but the man who is guilty of them. Tell him that the church service is a very serious matter, and neither the time nor place for such vulgarisms. "Despairing Pastor" could not have voiced his troubles to a more sympathetic ear. The American Lutheran labors unceasingly to assist pastors...
...feel you must please teachers and prod pupils with a weekly quiz on the news, why not send a one-page quiz supplement to your school subscribers rather than annoy other subscribers with a column of silly questions such as you inserted on p. 50 (TIME, Jan. 22) at the suggestion of Teacher Hall...