Word: annoying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is not merely teachers' talk about bad boys whose ways annoy them. The boys themselves are talking in the same tone about the same problem. When the Harvard Crimson says too much emphasis is given to college football, scoffers might retort, "There is a reason." But there was last December a meeting of college editors and Chairmen of campus organizations of Harvard, Princeton, Bowdoin, Williams, Dartmouth, and Wesleyan which pointed out the evils of the situation and made shrewd suggestions for remedial rules. When announcement was made that Yale alone took $626,194 in football receipts in the single...
...smooth steel club with a crook in it and a wooden haft. The assassin: a swart, puss-footed gentleman with a debonair smile, immaculate raiment and merciless accuracy of eye and wrist. He dealt his blows delicately, at infrequent intervals, seeming to select moments when he could most bitterly annoy his prey. His prey: a chunky, blond youth with a grim but cheerful smile...
...Painter Ford Madox Brown, "Fordie" was raised "to be a genius" by his philosopherfather, Dr. Franz Hueffer (long music critic of the London Times), by his grandfather and Aunt Lucy (sister-in-law of Poet Rosetti). Exposed from childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope fallible, divorce moral. His friend, Edward Garnett, once came where Ford, in William Morris garb, drank country mead from a bullock's horn. Garnett had a basket...
...fast insistence on the ultiquity of these motives calls for a reaction. Professor Holcombe's "Political Parties of Today", for example, discards, in its very logical history of Democratic and Republican politics, all forces less constant than King Cotton and King Corn. Excellent extremes like this are apt to annoy some humanist...
...Block that kick! Block that kick ! "The Yale cheering section repeated the phrase monotonously in the belief that it would annoy Slagle (Princeton) who was about to punt. Evidently it did, for Slagle, instead of kicking, started for the Yale right end with the ball under his arm. A few moments later he was 82 yards farther down the field, which was as far as he needed to go. In the next period, when Princeton was in danger, Dignan punted 71 yards. These two fabulous feats, plus the work of a line that never wavered, made it possible...