Word: disturbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latest dissident to disturb the art world's prevailing respect for the Museum's taste and influence is Russian-born Sculptor Alexander Archipenko. Archipenko is preparing a book entitled Why I Request to Remove My Works from the Museum of Modern Art. He declines to reveal his reasons until his book is on the counters...
...that time Teacher Rebel's pupils, who had watched frozen in their seats, also started jumping. The teacher calmed them by getting them to pick up the quivering coals, then sent for help. School officials who came on the run found the disturb ance subsiding, but swear that lumps of coal were still trembling. Next day State Fire Marshal Charles Schwartz organized a full-dress investigation. Submitted to lie-detector tests, Teacher Rebel and her pupils got a clean bill of truth-telling health. Chemists in the state colleges closely analyzed the coal. They could find nothing...
...walks in Central Park until 7, then settles down to type out her stories, leaving no spaces between the words. She does her own research. Once when she and Rebecca West were watching a cook turn pancakes in a Childs restaurant window, a bystander said: "Don't disturb them. They're novelists collecting material...
...Fleay, as an experiment, gave Jill some nesting material. She promptly carried it into her burrow, soon afterward holed up for six days. When Fleay ventured to open the burrow last week, he found a fat baby, about nine weeks old, that uttered puppylike barks. Fleay is afraid to disturb the burrow further, but he thinks there may be another baby inside, because a platypus almost always lays two eggs...
...making coffee. A maniac comes in. 'Hey, jerk,' he says, 'gimme a cupa coffee.' Jerk! You're not in business to fight, right? A physical altercation can spoil the nickels. 'Derelict,' I say, 'don't disturb my equanimity.' So again he insults me-a hollow hulk like that. So I say to him: 'Your idiocy is very refreshing.' So he gets sore and wants to fight. So I say to him nice and polite: 'Hey, bum,' I said, 'stop knocking yourself out. The door...