Word: petulante
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The monsters promptly clapped the petulant Patriarch into jail. But none of this persecution made much change in the ingrained Christian faith of Russia's mystically minded millions of believers. Believers who harbored priests or attended worship might be deprived of their ration tickets, their jobs or might just...
Now 47, dry, petulant, hawk-voiced George Burns has played straight man so long that he is sometimes given to echoing questions addressed to him. If a waiter asks "What are you going to eat today?" Burns is likely to reply "What am I going to eat today?" The character...
Last week Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels' "Girl with the Sex-Appeal Voice" turned up in Stockholm. Brita Brager, the 23-year-old daughter of a Swedish naval attache, had been one of the stars of the Propaganda Ministry's radio section. In October, for reasons which must have...
On Duffy's Tavern (TIME, June 21) last week the bird laughed, whistled, sneezed and sang The Star-Spangled Banner. At the preshow rehearsal, with a full audience, the feathered guest star was in especially fine form. Raffles pondered the best lines of Duffy's star, rumpled Ed...
But there was a drawback. He had claborate instructions about who to follow and where to stand and he spent most of the evening trying to memorize them. The leader in his game of follow-the-leader was a petulant Italian who repeated his commands some six times. Then about...