Word: peevishly
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...vacation, Postmaster General Farley paused to say a kind word for the poor heat-bedeviled bachelor in the White House: "The President is in astonishingly good health but, like all the rest of us who have to endure the sodden heat of Washington, he is entitled to get peevish at times...
Harvard, together with several universities, has recently indicated a determination to do its share towards providing for a government by the competent and well-educated. Henceforth, no peevish utterances by public officials as to collegiate irresponsibility will carry weight. The next step is up to the government, more specifically, to Congress itself. What must be done, before the present agitation over Civil Service dies out, is to withdraw from the realm of politics, by Congressional legislation, an appreciable number of the positions in the upper strata of departments responsible for public administration. In other words, if Civil Service is over...
Alexander Wollcott's retirement from The New Yorker occurred at what many observers considered the peak of an extraordinary career. Once the ranking dramacritic of Manhattan, he had become a sort of glorified gossip columnist, a genteel Walter Winchell, and a peevish prophet of arts & letters. Few men can tell a story as entertainingly as Alexander Woollcott, and few would dare to be as malicious. As Cream of Wheat's "Town Crier" on the radio, he received more "high class" fan mail than any other single entertainer on the Columbia network. Sales of his book, While Rome Burns...
...fear that I may violate Mr. C. R. Cherington's canons of good taste by daring to reply to his letter in yesterday's CRIMSON, and even lay myself open to the charge of writing another sarcastic and peevish communication. Mr. Cherington's letter was, of course, quite free from these faults which marred my recent letter on the Critic, and since I feel that a reply is in order, I shall strive to attain the level of gentlemanly polemic that he set yesterday...
...Advocate as it is but with the Advocate as it could be. Mr. H. M. Wade would show, in our opinion, considerably more sense and even more good taste if he would admit that he has not lived up to his opportunities before he starts writing sarcastic and peevish letters to the papers. "Dies irae, dies illa." Charles R. Cherington...