Word: annoyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealing that her sensibilities have been hurt is thereafter to outgag the waggish Charlie. Rusty cheats Charlie out of a vacation. He retaliates by taking over the city desk, making himself unpleasant to his onetime colleagues. Rusty hires the world's most obnoxious office boy to annoy him, has his office painted in zebra stripes. Heartbroken when he hears she is to marry Roger Dodacker. success story writer (Conrad Nagel). Charlie arranges a wedding present for her by sending her a fire engine and a riot squad, an ambulance and an undertaker to Dodacker. In the last shot, Rusty...
...Thesis will annoy not only loyal subjects of His Majesty but U. S. Anglophiles: that the American language, once a dialect of English, is now stronger than its mother tongue, so that English " promises to become, on some not too remote tomorrow, a kind of dialect of American...
While he grows, the child must learn to behave in a way that does not repress his instincts and abilities, yet does not annoy other human beings. Teaching the infant, child and adolescent such emotional and intellectual disciplines is the hardest job that a parent has. Dr. Kugelmass gives many a useful pointer in his manual. Dressing and undressing, he shows, "are difficult techniques for the young child. Each bit of raiment requires a special procedure. If the child is given the freedom of trial and error in the manipulation of his clothing and shoes, he will gradually learn...
...appreciate that some bankers and corporate officials do not like publicity. . . . One very good way to avoid further publicity of this character would be to put your finances in order. "I certainly have no desire to annoy you or your bankers, but would be derelict in my duty if I did not do what I could to assist in correcting what I know to be an unhealthy situation. . . ." And, most tartly: "If Messrs. Reynolds and Whitney would try half as hard to effect such a program as I have suggested, as they do in advancing reasons why it cannot...
Crempa's device to annoy Public Service was to tie a long string to a stone, throw it over the high-tension wires that crossed his property, pull a metal object across the wires, short-circuiting the line and putting out the lights in three neighboring towns. He did this some 21 times. Public Service fought back by charging him with malicious mischief, making him serve a six-month jail sentence in 1931. After that the company got an injunction to keep Crempa from tampering its wires. When he continued his short-circuiting pranks, the court cited...