Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from their summer vacation they find a garish stucco house newly-erected on the lot next to theirs and the unfolding of Anthonys' late for its occupants begins with a noisy house-warming when Anthony summons the police to keep them quiet. The splondid psychological outlining of Anthony's defiant but helpless rage is contained in a piece of writing that makes the whole book worth buying. He grows more and more unbalanced in his broodings, while his wife in her "thin vagnoly quavoring voice" keeps complaining...
What the 35 citizens of West Amwell Township were taking a defiant stand against was a 15,000-word rider attached to the AAAmendments which became law fortnight ago, a rider which was discussed for not more than an hour in either house of Congress, was not supported by the AAA or by any national farm organization and yet was binding upon some 3,000,000 U.S. farmers who raise potatoes...
Maurice Vlaminck, modernist painter, told the three judges with a defiant air: "Mere nakedness does not shock...
Sticking out his tongue at the arrogant Old Lady, the defiant treasurer retreated to Glasgow. There he did just what Premier Hepburn of Ontario did when the bankers cracked down on him. Last fortnight without benefit of banks or bankers he offered his bonds direct to the public. Last week the books were still open, but when & if the full ?2,500,000 issue (about $12,000,000) is taken up, Glasgow ratepayers will be relieved of ?62,500 (about $300,000) in interest charges annually...
...Chamber. Year before he addressed it in person. This year he cut it dead. Chamber officials and White House secretaries denied an intentional snub, explaining that the President was too busy to speak and had not been asked for a message. Nevertheless, the Chamber rebels trembled in defiant delight, convinced that they had thoroughly riled the President...