Word: petulante
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"Oh, I hope the Senator is not petulant this morning," interrupted Mr. Robinson of Arkansas.
Like an ivory chessman smashed by a petulant master the career of a young Spanish politician snapped in two last week, when Dictator General Primo de Rivera demanded his resignation and received it in a loosely oval hand.
For an instant many a steaming Dutch face grew morose. Then a private, thirsty, petulant, vexed, picked up a chair, hurled it through a window of the beer canteen. Defiant, the men" seized many a bottle, grew pot-valiant, daced to chant the "Internationale."
Nations have a peculiarly touchy psychology, a disposition to snap at slender affronts to dignity. With truculence, commonly considered a component of prestige, diplomats indulge in politely phrased wars of words. Were it not for the glint of steel in each polished sentence, these verbal disputes would have an element...
Meanwhile Miss Virginia Mackay-Smith, daughter of Bishop Mackay-Smith of Washington, fretted and grew petulant because the dashing and long socially popular Captain Boy-Ed insisted that he had not yet received permission from his superior, Grand Admiral Tirpitz, to marry her and take her back with him to...