Word: annoyed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...records show a gradual spread of institutional medicine in the U. S., of doctors working for hire?for clinics, insurance companies, factories, labor camps, government agencies. Especially does governmental interference with medicine annoy Dr. Morgan and his A. M. A. associates. They insist that the Government should abstain from conducting, controlling or subsidizing any form of medical treatment "excepting such service as is provided by the Army, Navy or Public Health Service, and that which is necessary for the control of communicable diseases, the treatment of mental diseases, the treatment of the indigent sick, and such other service...
...polyglot nature of the Congress seemed to annoy many of the U. S. delegates. They confessed they were disappointed by the confusion of what went on. They had no one leader, no formal place in the Congress program. With their nicknacks and souvenirs some of them cleared out of Carthage and Tunis until the grand summation of the whole Eucharistic Congress, the solemn benediction of the Blessed Sacrament before 10,000 witnesses (including infidels). Those who had poor places will have opportunity to see and hear the whole thing again. So too many a stay-at-home U. S. Catholic...
...place in the modern world can be compared in difficulty to the station of the man in public life, it is that of his wife. His task is hard enough; petty minutiae, the uncomprehending objections of the people he would serve, contrive to annoy him; yet a little praise from those people, though it may be slow in coming, can sweeten the bitterness of a thousand quibbling opponents. For the woman who is a conscientious helpmeet, however, there are innumerable trails and duties without the prospect of direct self-satisfaction; the pleasure of success can be for her at best...
Said one girl with a happy smile: "There are no ill mannered-men in the [switchboard] room to annoy us. It is only the electricians or the mechanics who come into the room once in a while, but they are all nice...
...Harvard College," fails to take its contents seriously and prefers to ascribe it to "some crank or mentally unbalance person." It was nevertheless, turned over to Charles Apted, chief of the Harvard Yard police, in case, said Mr. Fobes, "its recipient might incite other persons of unsound mind to annoy the Fogg officials of cause damage to University property...