Word: annoyance
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Organizer Story has formed a committee of Big Names, from Hugh Walpole to A. P. Herbert, has turned her basement into a rallying place for artists, patrons, critics, buyers, the art public. Air raids need not overly annoy visitors, for the British Art Centre has full club facilities, including a bar and easy chairs...
Smug males like he of the horsy name, Andrew McWhiney (TiME, Aug. 14), annoy me tremendously. I don't care particularly about Edda Ciano, but I do resent his oblique inference that all women are congenital nitwits and as such, should be consigned to home and the kiddies...
Byron refused to answer Lady Falkland but had her informed that she was mistaken and that if she continued to annoy him, he would insult her. Her final disillusioned blast: "Don't write to me. I will not open any letters from you-nor will I see you if you call...
Crouched over so that the effect was that of a turtle trying to annoy a mastiff, Galento looped up and over with his left, time after time, during the first round. He even crowded Louis to the ropes, belaboring him picturesquely but not damagingly...
Although their desire to annoy the skinflint president of the St. Louis Midland Railroad is altruistic, Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...