Word: ado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Novelist Norris entitled her speech "New Fashions in Morals." She said that, while working for woman suffrage, she often thought that it was much ado about nothing, and that she was inclined to think so still...
...cannot escape the conviction, Mr. President, that your request for my resignation is also most untimely." Without further ado, Mr. Daugherty boarded a train and went to Atlantic City. There he was awaited by a bevy of reporters with open notebooks. He went to the Hotel Traymore and was besieged by the press. He smiled gayly if a bit ruefully. "Don't come too close, boys. . . You'll be contaminated. "Don't call me 'Dockerty.' Call me 'Daugherty,' pronouncing it Doherty... "I will let you look at me walking on the boardwalk...
...actors and actresses, in London. She made her first stage appearance in 1847 at the age of three, singing I'm Ninety- Five and dancing the Jockey Dance. Her last appearance was in 1906, at Drury Lane in a jubilee testimonial to Ellen; she was Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing...
...Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra the other evening gave a program of all Shakespeare, that is to say of orchestral pieces written to illustrate some Shakesperian theme. This interesting selection of music, ably conducted by Fritz Reiner, consisted of Korngold's Much Ado About Nothing, Wechsler's overture As You Like It, Berlioz' Queen Mab, Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. This piquantly balanced the well known against the little known...
This latter piece, "The Sea" might well bear for sub-title: "Much Ado about Nothing." Its composer, Mr. Frank Bridge, is supposedly representative of the Englishmen of the middle ground, Williams, Holst, and the rest. He has all the faults of a neutral, chief among them dullness. Brevity is not one of his virtues. As a conductor he is energetic; one would like to see (not hear) him conduct such a piece as "Ein Heldenleben...