Word: peevishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noisy grief and disappointment as an "anti-A m e r i c a n demonstration." Other U. S. correspondents in Paris soon and roundly denied this interpretation and for several days after the incident, U. S. editors were kept busy explaining that the French were not an irrationally peevish people (TIME, May 23). What the Herald Tribune management said to Mr. Forrest about his putting the newspaper in such a position, has never come out. But last week the Herald Tribune left no doubt in the public mind but that Mr. Forrest is now in the best of standing...
...dome of white granite, with many large blocks loosened by the weather, and, until one approached the edge and looked down to the base of the tremendous vertical cliffs, all seemed gentle and smiling, for we had a warm, still day. The next day it snowed and visitors were peevish. The view, of course, is immense--peaks on peaks for hundreds of miles, forests and valleys, lakes and streams...
Haggard, shopworn, peevish- 14,000 workers walked out into the dirty snow of Jan. 26, 1926. They would teach insolent mill owners not to cut wages...
...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...