Word: annoyance
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...Roar-China! liberal-minded spectators should find little direct Soviet proselytizing to annoy them. Any spectator will probably be moved by the scenic grandeur, the bold theatrics of the production. To Director Herbert Biberman goes praise for capable direction, for assembling and managing his mob of 67 Chinese, 15 Occidentals. And Lee Simonson's setting which uses real water, real boats, almost a real battleship, is noteworthy in itself...
From burdock roots, whose clinging burrs ("beggar buttons") annoy rural promenaders, catch in hunting dogs' tails, John Christian Krantz Jr., 31, director of pharmaceutical research for Sharp & Dohme (Baltimore chemists), produced cookies and bread which diabetics may eat with benefit, he told the University of Maryland Biological Society last week...
...type. Immaturity even in men of college age can always be tolerated. But such an astounding disregard for the rights, if not the opinions of others, can be condoned on no ground. The opprobrium of bad taste is not even a sufficient indictment. Arousing men out of bed to annoy them with assinine questions all night long is bad enough, but to attempt to spread rumors about the President of the University shows an absolutely unexplainable height of sheer offensiveness...
...Harvard CRIMSON did call the American Legion Convention a "wholesale brawl etc." Well! "deah"! me!. Lets give three long rahs for Harvard and the CRIMSON only don't make them too loud, it might annoy the "death" old "Harvard Ladies"!! Of course, the scenes of disorder were caused by Cambridge and Boston hoodlums, amongst whom were probably some students, too young to have been "over there" in 1918, and who wouldn't have been there if they could have, but anyway do you "death old things" really think the Legion (900,000 MEN NOT children) care what the CRIMSON thinks...
...very hard to get around Mr. Babbitt. It is impossible to annoy him. The best plan is to keep your shirt on, remembering his own counsel to moderation. There is much to learn from simply watching the workings of a mind which is facing without fear the best critical antagonism in the world today...