Word: pettish
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With Labor in a pettish temper, the President sped Secretary Perkins off to San Francisco to address the convention. Her audience was friendly but far from enthusiastic when she keynoted: "We cannot expect the Roosevelt Administration or any other Administration to give us the millennium on a silver platter...
...entire French press was pettish over the fact that Germany has said no official "Thank You" to France for evacuating the Rhineland...
...Rumania one may refer to Prince Nicholas, weak-chinned younger son of Dowager Queen Marie, as a? "bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend," but it will cost one just four months in jail. Some weeks ago Speed-Fiend Nicholas crashed into a taxicab and in pettish rage" kicked the chauffeur severely under the stomach so that the unfortunate man had to be rushed to the city hospital. One Mircea Damian wrote to the local newspapers in protest, not only calling Prince Nicholas bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend, but adding...
Whoever seeks colorful incidents in his daily papers should feel grateful to Abd-el-Krim and his little playmates for giving him something to stimulate his imagination almost every day. Such a person must have been highly pleased yesterday morning to read that Abd-el-Krim, feeling a bit pettish, had blown one of his prominent ministers from the mouth of a cannon. Sometimes one regrets that such things do not happen more often in European politics...
...Jenkins, and leaves the "laws of economics" and the politicians to punish the guilty ones and meet the future. It allows the "laws of economics" to set prices; it discovers that Mr. Hoover can set prices better than the "laws of economics"; it dismisses Mr. Hoover, and like a pettish child disposes of its railroads because, forsooth, it has not learned to run them. And this is the amorphous djinn to which we believers in democracy cheerfully trust our salvation...