Word: impertinente
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Lady Astor, Conservative candidate for Plymouth, had a busy time with the hecklers. At one meeting came an impertinent remark from a man which Lady Astor cut short with: "Don't be cheeky, or I will knock that pipe out of your mouth." On another occasion she answered defiantly...
The silence had become almost oppressive. The mother came forward and with an agitated voice said: "My mother was horrified. She is of the old Russia; she cannot understand. Some neighbors thought it impertinent, wanting to seem important. This hurt my husband, and we almost gave up the idea entirely...
There is only one thing, says the author, on which the souls could have agreed: " That an insignificant, impertinent, treacherous biographer should dare to group them under such an infamous title."
It is difficult to select extracts from his various articles as the humor is so closely woven into the whole of each. His struggles with a typewriter--which by the way is "Ami et a mijge imean a midgt, made of alumium."--renders one helpless with mirth; while his essays...
We would respectfully commend to the enraptured orators, who are now appalled an American who can leave Abraham Lincoln unadorned, while claiming possession of the lady whom James Russell Lowell-according to the infamous and unauthorized interview of Julian Hawthorne-designated as "a snuffy old woman" the text of the...