Word: peevish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like love triangles throughout history, Russia's recent flirtation with the West has resulted in jealousy and political temper-tantrums on the part of China. The atrocities in Tibet, squabbles with India, denunciations of the U.A.R. and Yugoslavia are the embarrassing and peevish actions of a self-righteous and somewhat neglected power...
...over one word: liver. The FTC first tried in 1943 to get the "Liver"' dropped from Carter's Little Liver Pills. The pills, said the agency, did not help a sluggish liver, would not necessarily relieve that ''worn-out, sluggish, allin, listless, tired, stuffy, cranky, peevish, bogged-down" feeling. After 142 hearings in six cities (and 11,000 pages of testimony), the FTC issued a cease-and-desist order, only to have it tossed out by the U.S. Court of Appeals. After an appeal to the Supreme Court, which ordered further hearings, the FTC tried again...
...Book of Proverbs (27:5) tells us, "Open rebuke is better than secret love," and this offers some comfort, however meagre, when one regards the ferocious and peevish attack of certain Deans upon the Class of 1961. Since, by the continual assertion of noted Deans and Officers at Registration, Harvard classes have been growing progressively more intelligent since about 1936, it is necessary to conclude that by 1961 the gap has doubtless become so great that Deans and others no longer have any real standards by which to judge more recent classes, and must confine themselves to their predictions...
...Greatness." This week Oscar will start skidding amuck two evenings a week (for $900 a performance -$300 more than KCOP-TV gave him) on KHJ-TV's Channel 9. By now knowing which side its customers are buttered on, Philco was expected to tag along prudently with its peevish star. Promised Oscar: "I'll treat them like Queen Mary visiting the poor...
...observers, it is approached too rhetorically and on too sustained a note-the whine of the gnat, the organ pedal diapasoning, the boom of the bittern, are among its musical accompaniments. The old person is assumed, and often affects to be, all of a piece-disgusting, pitiful, pretentious, peevish, noble, ingratiating, moody, and so on. It is really more varied, a seductive combination of increased wisdom and decaying powers...