Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With reference to the outcome of the friction in North Africa, Salvemini declared. "For the time being I don't think the situation will grow dangerous. I suspect that all these outcries which are being made about Tunis, the Suez Canal, and Djibouti is meant not as much to disturb the French as to please Mr. Chamberlain...
Said Headmaster Roger Hill of Woodstock, Ill.'s Todd School for Boys of Orson Welles: "From the day young Orson landed at my school, looking uncommonly like a playful puppy, he was searching for some bizarre way to disturb people...
...Peapack, Poet White has collected 68 poems, including five rhymed book reviews, some songs of "childbirth, paternity, and routine domestic disturb-ance," love songs and a few on cosmic subjects which he says he included only to keep his franchise. His dislikes-inverted sentences in TIME, the works of Walter B. Pitkin, publicity, perfume and economic theory-stir up Poet White only briefly, and the only really bitter work in his collection is addressed to Vittorio Mussolini, inspired by Vittorio's description of his "exceptionally good fun" bombing Ethiopians. Of TIME Poet White complains...
...With reference to the so-called strike. . . . No strike had been called. Earnest Union men had met to discuss their problems. They were in session working them out when a few radicals and a few nervous women-just as you may have in New York, commenced to disturb the peace, and the efficient alert Akron Police Department stepped in and restored order. A boy was shot, but you are wrong again when you say he was a striker, and perhaps any boy who knowingly runs into trouble should expect to get hurt. However, our City Hospital, with the latest scientific...
...roof far above supported by gigantic, perfectly shaped pillars, widely spaced so that one could see far back into the endless gloom. Occasionally sharply defined sunbeams would filter down to the bare forest floor, but neither they nor the few mountain birds whose liquid piping echoed round about could disturb the sepulchral peace. There was also a sepulchral chill...