Word: peevish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something went wrong with Joe and his vision. In spite of his nightly visitation, he was still just a shabby little boy in a shapeless sweater. He grew sullen and peevish. When photographers took his picture he sometimes grinned and postured, but sometimes he kicked them in the shins or tried to tear up their film. He was not always kind to the people, ill or maimed, who sought his help; once he shouted to a roomful of them: "Get out of here...
...elderly couple sitting between the priest and the bride do not look like her, so are probably her new in-laws. The desiccated character opposite them, yelling for more beer, has "the same peevish expression-vanity without dignity, sourness without purity." But, like his father, he also has store clothes and an avaricious look. That's the man, says Highet. He is "rich but ill-mannered. That is why the bride is sitting quietly with downcast eyes. Her smirk means, 'I'm glad I'm getting married. I don't much like my husband...
Since the Navy summarily moved in two years ago, farmers of surrounding Ventura County have cast peevish and curious glances at this furious bustle of activity. They financed and built the original port themselves as an outlet for their lima beans and lemons after a Federal grant had been rescinded on the grounds that no port was needed...
...Tired, peevish, none of them feeling like accomplished diplomats, much less like statesmen, the delegates Monday night straggled part way up Corcovado peak to an official diplomatic reception in President Vargas' marble Guahabara Palace. They kissed the hand of Senhora Vargas, moved through tapestried halls to a garden buffet table and outdoor cocktail bars. By the time Rio's municipal ballet had flitted on & off an outdoor stage the tropic night had begun to work its magic...
...writings into the fire.' " Cleveland was then a mudhole of 6,000 population and six newspapers, including the Eagle-Eyed News Catcher. Editor Gray put his fire into nose-thumbing rhetoric, got himself sued by Horace Greeley, denounced by Charles Dickens (then touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came to the Plain Dealer when its "Commercial Editor," Charles Farrar Brown, started a humorous column signed "Artemus Ward." Editor Gray died at 48, torturously, of having an eye put out by his son's cap pistol...