Word: unpleasanter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereupon, Father and Uncle George arrange a supper party with the latter lady, hoping, with the unpleasant intolerance of Babbitt opinion about chorus girls, that they can ward her off with wealth. By a curious coincidence common to the stage, Sister is in the same cafe with the family chauffeur...
Brave, boyish Janet Rawley and her brutishly neurasthenic spouse, Jack, are about to plunge into African shrubbery on a safari for game and gold. Capt. James Antrim, of the King's African Rifles, splendid fellow that he is, cannot bear to see such ill-mated tenderfeet wandering loose among...
Not so many months ago, some of these companies were very much undercapitalized. Atlantic Refining was a conspicuous example. Surplus was out of all proportion to capital on the balance sheet. Also, political liberals in Washington, about that time, began to demand a tax on corporate surpluses. To avoid such...
Doubtless the clear partisanship of the Federation for LaFollette and Wheeler came as rather an unpleasant surprise to Mr. Davis. The Federation had labelled Davis as "unacceptable" and had let it go at that. The Federation, to make it clear that it was not playing favorites between Republicans and Democrats...
It was not the fact that they were so highly educated which destroyed those unpleasant young men in Chicago, but precisely the fact that theft colleges failed to educate them at all. They read the books, but they did not grasp the idea. A large majority of undergraduates also do...