Word: ado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress to stay in Washington as long as was necessary to pass that important measure, although the House Ways & Means Committee three weeks ago completed its tax hearings, not until last week did Congress & country get a first look at the contentious tax rates. After a month's ado about nothing the Ways & Means Committee finally emerged from a brown study with something specific to talk about. It proposed the following...
...Italian Minister at Addis Ababa demanded "indemnity and moral reparations." His Imperial Majesty Power of Trinity I, reputed descendant of King Solomon's Queen of Sheba, promptly flashed charges to Geneva that it was the Italians who wantonly attacked. He further charged that the frontier cities of Ado and Gerlogubi had been pelted by Italian airmen with bombs. Two days later Geneva newshawks were handed by Italy's local diplomatic mission copies of a blunt, unsigned manifesto from Rome. Couched in the first person, it stated that "I will not" submit to League arbitration of the Ualual Incident...
...Board of Health. Dr. William I. Fishbein, able young brother of the American Medical Association's Dr. Morris Fishbein. and William Randolph Hearst. Mr. Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner, which hired the women because their chunky thighs and beefy arms would photograph well, instigated and made great ado over bananas...
...hazy days of the Chinese empire, centuries before Magellan reached the Orient, the Igorots of Benguet mined gold in the Philippine hills. The Spaniards snatched off their gold earrings and beat them into crucifixes. Spanish-American War adventurers, trekking inland, were greeted by natives crying "Ado Balatoc Bantay!" ("Lots of gold in the mountains.") But geological disturbances, dense vegetation, frequent droughts and lack of modern machinery kept the infant industry of the Philippines from rapid development. Not until last year did Philippine business men really begin to discover how much balatoc there was in the bantay and what...
...dead cat is a problem, 213,835 might be considered a crisis. Yet last year New York City's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals without much ado disposed of that number in addition to 53,925 stray dogs and 1,858 miscellaneous horses, chickens, rabbits, pigeons...