Word: dudgeoned
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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...
...leonine, he walks scholarly, reflective paths at his home on Boar's Hill, near Oxford. Careless of the social niceties, when his tea is too hot he pours it into the saucer to cool it. Careful of pennies, he will stamp out of a tobacconist's shop in high dudgeon if he thinks the pipe-tobacco a halfpenny dearer than it should be. His life has been unexciting. He pays little attention to young critics who dismiss his poetry with the same adjective...
Secretary Akerson told them to return next day. They did, to find no appointment with the President ready for them. The third day was like the second, the fourth like the third. Plainly President Hoover would not see them. In high dudgeon they left Washington. Mayor de Golier exclaimed: "I am deeply disappointed. . . . Discrimination...