Word: snappishness
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...find out if she did. Deciding that her answer must be yes, Steve walked out. "If I stay," she told the doctor, "I'll lose my sense of humor, the whole thing will end in a mess." The doctor couldn't work without her and became so snappish Ina decided he loved Steve, started for Reno. When, having changed her mind at the airport, she came back and found him drunk in Steve's apartment, Ina throws completely over all the opportunities which actresses have heretofore reaped from this situation. Instead of having a cat fight...
...youth, has deplored the breeding trend which gave Lucason his looks. Aiming at a long, narrow, chiseled muzzle and skull collie fanciers have crossed their dog with the Russian wolfhound. According to oldtime collie-lovers, they have bred out the dog's brains, made it a snappish, treacherous fashion-plate fit for nothing but mincing around a show ring. One morning last week Trainer Michael Kennedy took Champion Lucason out to groom him for a show at Englewood next day. Mrs. Ilch houses her 60-odd collies Beside the North Shrewsbury River. While he was brushing the dog, Trainer...
...next afternoon Speaker Garner, snappish and irritable, found a hideaway from newsmen in Representative Warren's office at the Capitol. There he sat behind an open door for four hours, listened by radio to his own nomination. He told news cameramen he felt "too bad" to pose for them...
Fifteen minutes remained before the U. S. Supreme Court closed for the day. Solicitor General Beck, a bit snappish, a trifle overworked, was ready with another case. On behalf of the U. S., he appealed against the decision of the Federal District Court of Western Missouri which upheld the right of the Kansas City Journal-Post to publish lists of income-tax payments...