Word: annoyance
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...instructor and student have settled down, and wish to forge ahead in the work, and not to be held back by reviewing for a glorified quiz. The requirement that definite marks be turned in at these times to the Dean's office has only served in the past to annoy the professor, frighten the Freshman, and insult the Senior. By abolishing, moreover, this purely technical requirement, the instructor will be afforded far more freedom in running his course...
...than 200 people were killed, he was accused of high treason, condemned to death in absentia. Knowing there was little hope from this Nazi court, Communist Dimitroff blustered and roared his way through the trial while timorous, law-abiding Germans hung open-mouthed on his words. Nothing seemed to annoy bullet-headed Presiding Judge Blanker like the defend ant's persistent snapping of the word selbstvcrstdndlich ("self-evident") to questions whether or not he was a Communist, had been exiled from Bulgaria, believed in the proletarian revolution, had traveled under forged passports...
...more fun Eddie Cantor had with Goldman. Sachs the madder he got. Finally last year he sued all the partners of the sponsoring firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. for a cool $100,000,000. Other stockholders joined him in the suit, and Wall Street japesters used to annoy Goldman, Sachs telephone operators with requests for "the litigation department." To the dignified partners the vision of Funnyman Cantor on the witness stand became a haunting nightmare. Last week the nightmare evaporated. Goldman, Sachs & Co. offered to turn over 100,000 shares of stock and $85,000 cash to the corporation...
...Floyd Gibbons, Ed Hill became a Name (Edwin C. Hill to radio audiences). His deep timbred voice, easy delivery, intelligent interpretation of the day's news won him a tremendous following. His sentimentality was sufficient to endear him to the radio masses, yet not so cloying as to annoy most critical listeners. Last week the Hill career took a second turn paralleling Gibbons': Having become a Name, he was hired by Hearst...
...flecks of confusion are dispelled. It is shown that most of the voters are beer drinkers, and that an even greater number favour the introduction of the golden beverage into the dining halls. The answers to the other questions indicate, in general, little beside a coyly wayward tendency to annoy waitresses, and an astounding ability to vanish under the table on slight provocation...