Word: annoyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced, Frances Williams, musico-medienne; from Lester Clark, orchestra pianist; in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty, fighting. Said Miss Williams: "When I was playing in The New Yorkers, my husband was playing in the pit. He often missed beats just to annoy...
There were special arrangements from one end of Mother Nile to the other. Wherever the big British bird alighted for a few minutes to leave a passenger or pick up mail, in popped a Briton to felicitate and annoy King Albert. At Wady Haifa a small special British launch took His Majesty off the air liner promptly, but other passengers waited a long while for the company's big launch. When they were brought ashore at last, there stood King Albert royally rampant...
...picture must not be confused with the Edward Tinker who is president of Fox Film Corp. It would be libelous to suggest that Edward Tinker has mobile lips, like a mule's, a wiggling weather-beaten nose, and so little knowledge of how to behave that he would annoy his fellow passengers on a transatlantic liner by hooting low ballads in the ship's bar and chuckling at their mal de mer. It would be absurd to think that Edward R. Tinker would endanger the prestige of the Chase National Bank by wearing the false whiskers...
Other time-honored elements annoy the Playgoer. He denies that black-and-silver studio apartments and spirituous clinkings in the shaker can lend urbanity to commonplace repartee. He dislikes the glib patter that comes forth like a well-learned lesson from the actors' mouths. He misses that moment of hesitation which, in real life, attends the birth...
...issue, then," he continued, "is not between China and Japan, as it seems, but between the militaristic and liberal parties of Japan alone, the militarists hoping to discredit and annoy the liberals by stirring up trouble with a foreign nation." Proof of this is shown by the fact that Cheng Haseuh-Tiang, vice-commander-in-chief of the army of China, from the first clash with the Japanese, made every effort to get out of fighting, ordered the troops to remain in the barracks, and tried to avoid trouble as much as was possible, relying on the League of Nations...