Word: annoyer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...although easy to make, derived from any very firm idea of what the undergraduate contributions should be like. Apprentice writers have a good deal to do, and very little experience yet available for expression. They need a free medium in which they have scope simply as the young to annoy by being clever and seriously as craftsmen to invent, explore, and anticipate. Those who have been unhappy about the undergraduate work in the Advocate presumably would not prefer disadvantageous competition with the commercial magazines or the kind of local-color article on Radcliffe that graced the Progressive a couple...
Their reasons are still unexplained. One rumor has it that one of the two, representing a House which used many years ago to have a reputation for good dances, was acared to annoy his clanny constituents for political reasons and that the other of the two was simply acting as the foll for the first. Another is that the two had the best dates for their own individual dances and refused to give them up because of the prospects of making money...
This booing does not annoy...
...George Bernard Shaw believes in going to church when nobody else is there. An agnostic, he is not a member of the Church of England, but as an educated Briton he knows the Church services. They annoy him. Cheery, bustling vicar of London's famed St. Martin's-in-the-Fields is the Rev. Pat McCormick, who edits an unparochial magazine, St. Martin's Review, with a worldwide circulation of over 10,000, a host of famed contributors. In the April Review George Bernard Shaw had his heretical say about the Church of England's Prayer...
...vessels sprouting inside the tube. Because they were scientists, that gave them an idea. They got three rabbits, slit the delicate skin of their ears over a dime-sized area, sandwiched the ears between oval glass windows, long as an egg. Then, because they were scientists, they proceeded to annoy the exposed blood vessels in various ways -to provide scientists with a view of dynamic living tissues in a living body...