Word: disturbers
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...adjectives . . . she resembled Lady Chatterley and her lover rolled into one." According to the author, Vita Sackville-West's husband, Harold Nicolson, and Virginia's spouse, Leonard, "observed the affair from the point of view of cautious guardians, determined that [Virginia's] unaccustomed feelings must not disturb [her] mental balance." Woolf's novel Orlando, "the direct result of her emotional adventures," was an immediate success, though Critic Quennell today finds it "embarrassingly arch and whimsical...
...notable exceptions, such as The Boston Globe and the McNeil-Lehrer news show, only minor attention was given to the implications of the Brooks case itself. Had more people bothered to do so, it would have been clear exactly why the renewed nationwide use of the death penalty should disturb anyone with even a passing interest of justice morality, or the value of human life...
...month as regular fans returned to their favorite spa. Once again hotels and restaurants are jammed with people who seem to have leaped straight out of New Yorker cartoons, and the jewel thieves who shadow the wealthy have put in their usual appearance. It would seem that nothing could disturb these genteel August rites...
Student Handbook, page 52: "A noisy or disorderly occupant of a room in a dormitory under University supervision may be dismissed from the building and barred from residence in any other dormitory...Radios, television sets, phonographs, and other audible equipment shall be adjusted so as not to disturb others...No students shall play boisterous games [e.g. dodge ball with the living room couch] in the Yard, in corridors, etc." Dragged in front of the College's disciplinary Administrative Board, you will be asked to explain everything, from the guy in the lampshade to the beer consumed by underage revelers...
...Janet Glenn in Stamford, Conn., he took them out late one evening to the site. "And this is where your bathroom will be," he said. "When the moon is out, it will shine through the skylight, so you won't have to switch on the light and disturb each other...