Word: dudgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when, to save face on both sides, his friends got 20 of the 36 Senators to give him a vote of confidence last week, in the earnest hope that he would resign forthwith, Arturo Illas triumphantly boomed that he would do nothing of the kind. Out in high dudgeon strode just enough Senators to forestall a quorum, leaving a docket choked with 600-odd bills including preparations for Cuba's forthcoming Constituent Assembly...
...caused discontent in the officers' mess. Among Congressmen the growing suspicion that before summer's end they would be called upon to vote more taxes was disquieting. Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Bob Doughton, the Administration's Congressional tax champions, were in a state of high dudgeon. Again save for a zealous minority, few of the President's Congressional followers had any real enthusiasm for the Supreme Court proposal which he had tossed to them to carry out. On that issue a whole division of Democratic Senators were kicking in the traces: Connally of Texas, Clark...
...talent in other ways. He prided himself on his discerning palate. A tricky friend, dining with him in a restaurant, found the soup particularly good but slyly said to Moore: "Do you mean to say you are going to drink that?" Moore tasted it, called the waiter in high dudgeon, made a scene. Once he got in a row with some spinster neighbors who tore up a copy of one of his books, sent the pieces in a parcel to Moore, marked "Too filthy to keep in the house." Every night thereafter Moore would rattle his stick on their railing...
William M. Hunt '36, who rendered Dudgeon, the butler and the radio announcer, showed that his Dunster-Funster experience has stood him in good stead...
...Manhattan, through whose harbor passes 90% of the U. S. annual $100,000,000 trade with Italy, the Export Managers Club lunched in high dudgeon last week, resolved to trade & traffic with Italy to the best of their ability. Next that potent nexus of big shippers, railroads and steamship companies, the Conference of Port Development of the City of New York Inc. resolved that the President's warnings are "hasty and ill-advised," a "serious blow" to U. S. Commerce & Recovery. After becoming so heated that it referred to the President as "the daring young man on the international...