Word: disturbes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Convention, quickly turned it over to the presiding officer, General George Washington. At the close of the day's session that hot-tempered hero up-rose before the delegates, sternly declared: "I must entreat gentlemen to be more careful, lest our transactions get into the newspapers and disturb the public repose by premature speculations. I know not whose paper it is, but there it is, let him who owns it take...
...buildings red, white and blue-the precise colors of Mr. Seubert's stations. Although Esso displayed signs reading NOT CONNECTED WITH STANDARD OIL CO. (INDIANA), Mr. Seubert was furious. Last week he marched into a St. Louis Federal Court to file the first big lawsuit ever to disturb the live-and-let-live peace of the Standard Oil companies...
...manager of the Cooperative Society on three of the four issues. On the other, the matter of allowing solicitation to continue throughout the year, the committee's findings are in error. It proposes to eliminate the admitted nuisance of solicitors through the publication of an official "Do Not Disturb" card which the official solicitors will not be allowed to violate. No one likes to be bothered with salesmen. Everyone would get an official card and the solicitors, so carefully nurtured in every other respect, would be out in the cold...
...portraits which make of the subjects not text-book gods but living men who were great because they saw and recorded. Especially note wentily is Dr. Haggard's all too brief section on primitive societies and the status of medicine therein. The book is devoid of technicalities which might disturb the lay reader it is written in an animated and vigorous style which is not without its humorous touches. If will be of especial interest to those who anticipate entrance into the profession but it has much to offer anybody interested in the development of man and his most vital...
Suppose you had taken refuge from some pursuing calamity in a big metropolitan department store, and by some strange chance found it completely deserted. Suppose that for days on end nobody came to disturb you, as though no one but yourself were left in the world. And then suppose that one day you discovered that you were not quite alone after all, that somebody else was in the store too. These are the presumptions Author Cozzens makes the reader swallow. Once they are accepted, the rest of the circumstantial tale follows as nightmare the daydream. Able Author Cozzens always takes...