Word: annoyance
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...done with the Boston Redskins (professional football team). After a preliminary venture into professional sport as owner of the Palace A. C. (basketball), he bought the Redskins four years ago, popped them into red silk knickerbockers. It is his habit when watching games to run out on the field, annoy officials and abuse the coach for poor judgment. If he gets the Braves, he will supply brighter and more washable uniforms, a roster of new players,, a manager other than his wary friend and onetime roommate Bucky Harris. The prospect of owning football and baseball teams in the same city...
...characteristic of Promoter Curley that Senator Huey Long chose that evening to disgrace himself, by engaging in a brawl which Curley had to referee. Similar coincidences had caused Promoter Curley to become a crony of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, just before his assassination started the War; accidentally annoy Pancho Villa in 1915; act as pallbearer at Theodore Roosevelt's funeral and supply a night's free lodging to Edward of Wales. Promoter Curley drinks no alcohol, insists on driving his own car, married his secretary 15 years ago. His 22-year-old son by his first wife...
...Kansas City, saying, "Mother-in-law jokes annoy me; I like all my in-laws," Dr. Thomas Richmond took all his 26 kin by marriage on a two-week holiday trip to Colorado, all expenses paid, in an 18-passenger bus. two automobiles and a truck...
...testy irishman entered the telegraph & cable field solely to annoy Jay Gould, who had characteristically crossed him in a business deal. Allied with the equally testy Publisher James Gordon Bennett, who shared his animosity for the sly manipulator of Erie-R. R., John Mackay strenuously laid cables and strung wires to compete with Western Union, then a Gould favorite. The ensuing rate wars were scandalous, but at the founder's death in 1902 the Mackay companies were still a worthy heritage...
Still performing as the heroine of Little Women, Miss Hepburn makes it clear that unless her employers see fit to restore her to roles in keeping with her mannerisms, these will presently annoy cinemaddicts into forgetting that she is really an actress of great promise and considerable style. As the orchestra leader, Charles Boyer manages to make the defeat which he receives from his material comparatively graceful. Worst shot: the hero telling the heroine how little he has loved the mistresses whose photographs hang in his living room...