Word: petulante
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"Won't! Won't!" was in effect petulant King Fuad's reply when Prime Minister Mustapha Nahas Pasha recently asked him to sign a bill duly passed by Parliament. In defying his Prime Minister, the King (a British puppet) was defying Egypt. So complete is the Egyptian...
So much sword-rattling testimony disturbed treaty Senators. The free-&-easy way in which admirals publicly criticized U. S. diplomacy and discussed a possible war with Japan, prompted the New York World to flare up as follows: "It is high time somebody in authority told those admirals where they get...
Tall, heavy, clean-shaven, jowly, with little green eyes, big ears, big nose, petulant mouth, John Wanamaker's expression was called "cherubic-at times." Weak as a boy, he lived to be 84; though he took little exercise after he was 45, one day when he was 80 he...
A middle-aged bachelor, petulant and self-centered, is transformed by the appeal of his erring married sister into a chivalrous protector. But other interested parties inform him that he is being fleeced. Immediately all his charitable feelings turn to hate.
And so the years wore on, this strange, enigmatical woman shaping her plots and counterplots, bolstering all that was vigorous in British government and culture. The tall but awkward Essex, 25, took Leicester's place as Queen's favorite when the Queen was over 50, long nosed, toothless...