Word: petulante
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Edith Wharton lets one of her characters say: "I'm rather in a difficulty about you American novelists. Your opportunity's so immense, and . . . well, you always seem to write either about princesses in Tuscan villas, or about gaunt young men with a ten-word vocabularly who spend their lives...
SAINT SATURNIN-Jean Schlumberger -Dodd, Mead. When old Madame Colombe dies peacefully in her bed at Saint Saturnin. her children Louis. Jourdaine, Nicholas speculate on the significance of her departure. None of them anticipates its most ghastly consequence: their father, deprived of his wife's tactful authority, begins a...
Capt. Edgar Nutter, a doddering petulant man of 74, charged his brother with assault. He said that one hot summer day when he had been sewing an eyeshade for his weakened eyes, Capt. Fred Nutter had come into their room, put a calendar in the window to spoil the light...
"Hello, Stanley," said a petulant woman's voice. ''Aren't you going to keep our date?"
Sporting Blood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) has to do with a racehorse named Tommy Boy. Bred on a Kentucky farm, he is sold successively to a pot-bellied stable owner, a spendthrift with a petulant wife, a gambler who dopes him to win a race. When the gambler is murdered after...