Word: dudgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Frey was found not guilty and Martin Halabian got off with a $1 fine, but last week Judge Cutler, in high dudgeon, found Western Union guilty of contempt. Said he: "The company, in its desire to get revenue, has neglected to make rules governing messages of this nature to the courts. It is just as responsible to the libel laws as a newspaper." Deaf to Western Union's plea that as a common carrier it is obliged by law to send messages "without discrimination"* and that in any case it had not published the telegrams, he fined...
Back to French Guiana by his own choice sailed in high dudgeon last week Benjamin Ullmo, hailed by all France six months ago as a Second Dreyfus...
Administrator Johnson was in high dudgeon last week when the monthly Federal Reserve Board Bulletin stated: "The decline in industrial activity during the past two months has come in large measure in the industries in which expansion previously had been most rapid. It has also been marked in industries in which processing taxes or codes have become effective recently...
...frank and undisguised drivel. The only exciting part is a prolonged scene in which the wife, Helen Twelvetrees, attempts to inform her husband that she is going to have a child. She discourses at length on the beauties of the park, looks ethereal and at last departs in high dudgeon because hubby just will not take the hint. At last by dint of rubbing his nose in some yarn, and announcing that his wife is going to ******, an Irish wardrobe mistress gets across the idea. All goes to show the blushing naivete of a picture that should never have been...
Five years ago Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little left the University of Maine in high dudgeon because he thought that during his presidency Maine had been miserly toward education. Last year he resigned his presidency of Michigan because his ''methods handling situations dealing with invests of private donors, political interets, local interests and alumni interests...