Word: peevishness
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...Communists or bank robbers-are welcome at establishments which will not admit certain of our federal judges, ambassadors and countless members of our armed forces." "You Tell Me." Then the Commerce Committee members began asking questions about the legal meaning, implications and effects of Title II. Bobby was somewhat peevish, vague-and seemed uninterested in details. Administration emphasis presently justifies Title II under the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution (see box); thus, the measure would apply only to accommodations involved to a "substantial" degree in interstate commerce. Just what, the Senators wanted to know, did that language mean...
...adores Noel Coward, Princess Grace, and the Shah of Iran, but in her new book, The Celebrity Circus, Jet-Set Ringmaster Elsa Maxwell, 79, goes whip-cracking after party poopers and other peevish types: Author Cleveland Amory (''boring to look at, boring to listen to, boring to read"), ex-King Farouk ("surely one of the most repulsive creatures God ever made"), and Brigitte Bardot ("she's nude, she's horrible"). There are times, though, admits Elsa, when a girl's drop-dead list gets completely out of hand: "I've said so many nice...
Jung notes that nothing is a clearer symbol of peevish authority than a customs inspector-but that is only half the dream. Readers who respect the power of a pun are free to ponder which of his customs Jung didn't want Freud inspecting, and as far as Jung's critics are concerned, that is the heart of the matter. For how else account for a man whose method in science was often to find enlightenment in a dream, pronounce the dream a hypothesis, then dream it ten times over again, and announce the establishment of a theory...
...wearing a cheap American raincoat. Finally, because it urged upon his flickering consciousness the thought that he was buttoning his raincoat to hide the fact that he could no longer fully button his trousers. Karandas weighed 350 pounds; unlike most fat man, he was also of a naturally peevish disposition...
...Martin, his complaints were "silly and ignorant." Buckshot for Royalty. Sir Martin got little support for his censure petition in Parliament; and Fleet Street's other newspapers, while crowing at the Beaverbrook predicament, could ill afford to be too righteous in their condemnations-especially after the peevish chorus they had sung when Antony Armstrong-Jones took a job with the Sunday Times. The unwritten rule that the royal family should be treated only with reverence and respect in print has long vanished, and the British press has recently enjoyed peppering journalistic buckshot through the royal carcasses. Henry VIII might...