Word: annoyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Danzigers promptly guessed what sacrifice had occurred in Berlin: That Hitler had promised for several years to come not to annoy touchy Poland by annexing Danzig...
...lecture tour (TIME, Dec. 27), gangling Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair ("Red") Lewis told newsmen that nothing in the world as he finds it annoys him. Asked one reporter: "Does the poverty in the world annoy you, Mr. Lewis?" Annoyed, Author Lewis jumped up, flared: "Don't you try to make a damn fool out of me, young man. God did that already, and you don't need to try to help...
Certain to be welcomed by readers of Mutiny on the Bounty, which it resembles in its melodramatic plot and realistic detail, it will as certainly annoy those who feel that Magellan was the equal of Columbus, Marco Polo and Henry the Navigator. Author Ford melodramatizes the tiny, lame, yellow-skinned Portuguese explorer as a cold-blooded sadist whose only real genius lay in the grandiose scope of his malevolence...
...Dress in old, preferably baggy, clothes and wait patiently in stateroom for bugle. Upon hearing bugle, walk, do not run, to dining room where food will be served. Please do not annoy stewards with pleasantries, mild or otherwise; they have to get up at four-thirty...
...first year was the hardest. Patient Brown tried to annoy the doctors as much as their elaborate, cheerful treatment annoyed him. But he enjoyed his ''diverting and interesting" companions. "General Foch" amused him especially. It was fun, at a safe distance, teasing the surly ones with such remarks as: "You big lazy bum, why don't you go home and go to work?" In time he noticed nothing particularly "goofy" about any of them. It was the intrusion of sane outsiders on Visitors' Day that brought back a depressing sense of something wrong...