Word: ado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emma, according to her mother, "Then I will go to him and to them-my future subjects! I will do my duty, with God's help." Queen Emma. When Old King Willem proceeded to beget the present Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her mother, Queen Emma, had much ado to control a little Princess even more energetic, exuberant and wilful than she had been herself. For example, the Present Queen of the Netherlands behaved most obstreperously when, at the age of nine, she was compelled to change trains at a small railway station. Rushing up to the station master...
...survey of the front pages of modern newspapers convinces us of the truth of most of the charges levelled against the journals. The newspaper art of making much ado over unimportant events and neglecting matters of political and historical interest is demonstrated to us day by day, not alone by tabloids, but by high-minded and supposedly intellectual journals...
...Chrysler always looks a trifle amazed. He has a home on Long Island -at Great Neck. He owns and uses a yacht and several speed boats. His oriental rugs make one of the best collections in the U. S. When he wants something he gets it without ado. So he has a pipe organ at home. To save himself reading labor, he has a paper made up for his private use. It is an expensive clipping of magazine articles and economic reports...
...Little ado is made of the National Institute of Arts & Letters (250 members) or its American Academy of Arts & Letters (50 members picked from the Institute). Yet their membership contains men & women who have made positive contributions to current letters & fine a ts. Last week the American Academy of Arts & Letters met in Manhattan and again chose Professor William Milligan Sloane of Columbia president. Also, the National Institute of Arts & Letters gave him a gold medal for his work in history...
...long been common knowledge. "I wonder who writes his stuff?" gibe even mildly sophisticated U. S. citizens when a heavyweight prizefighter or a matinee idol sets down the story of his life. The "I" story is part of the modern news-exploitation system; accepted as such without particular ado...