Word: petulante
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The French Parliament with its festering intrigues is not France, and public opinion swiftly hardened against another such misuse of "Democracy" as occurred fortnight ago when scores of petulant Deputies refused to vote either way with the result that Premier Daladier resigned rather than be accused of "acting like a...
Last autumn Crown Prince Anthony unexpectedly married a certain Kathleen Hudden at Rangoon, Burma. The petulant Raja was not long in letting it be known that he considered Miss Hudden a nobody. It was too much like the marriage of his two daughters. It indicated that the Crown Prince lacked...
It is not until the second half of the showing that the plot really unfolds, and gives free play to the intrigues of Ahmed, the petulant beauty of the Princess Kuhachin, and the trusting, almost child-like simplicity of the great Kublai Khan. Basil Rathbone, as the scheming minister of...
Turn her lose on her native soil with a scenario written by Coquette, and her lack of inhibitions can be almost frightening, but since her "discovery" and importation a year or so ago, she has played the the part of the unwordly, impulsive, sometimes petulant little girls with increasing skill...
Not content with "sticking its neck out" with untrue statements, the article went on to say in petulant fashion that the University should not have paid $50,000 for two bronze rhinoceroses when the Widener Library was suffering from neglect. This puerile statement has no bearing on the case, as...