Word: peevish
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...more summer months of idleness, a flood of special deliveries and telegrams the week before college opens, a few haphazard, pointless contributions by editors whose thoughts are at the time still waiting for the sunrise, and the lone editor who has returned to Cambridge, duty-bound and royally peevish, scrambles the horrible collection together, shouts to the printer, falls into bed, and another "Freshman number" looks the Square in the eye. That is the probable truth...
...Amnesty Bill, passed by the Chamber of Deputies (TIME, July 21), was recently referred for report to a special Commission of the Senate after a peevish debate. The Commission came forward last week and stated that it was impossible for it to make an immediate report...
...speakers had pretended to pay no attention to this heckler, until Henry Allen, since then Governor of Kansas, came down from his hotel, and appeared, as I remember it, to second the nomination of Roosevelt. He, therefore, had no forewarning when this melancholy heckler with the peevish mortuary voice whined...
Torn by schisms, the strong Republican Congress that convened two years ago presented a state of disorganization at the end of its career. The Senate was peevish and forgot the traditional courtesy of thanking the Vice President and the President pro tem. The House was boisterous, with the assistance of the Marine Band and much backslapping. Nobody turned the legislative clock back to prolong the last...
...Peevish Ice Cutters...