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Word: ado (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France last month much was ado about an article in TIME appraising the Paris press. TIME had said out loud what many Parisians had for years been saying in lively whispers. Publisher Henry Robinson Luce, holidaying abroad, stepped off a train at St. Lazare to find that he had been sued for 5,000,000 francs by the Paris Press Association. But France's still democratic Government took no action, and TIME remained on French newsstands. Publisher Luce expressed regrets for TIME'S too-general indictment of the Parisian press. Fortnight later the Government, in an effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: TIME Ban | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Although she does not rate as a royal highness, the Duchess of Windsor loves royal ado of all kinds. Last week the Duke bought her a truly royal present-one of the eleven Norwegian platinum fox pelts in the world. Price: $1,722.50. Some days earlier he had also taken her to Biarritz to see some royal statuary-a bust of Queen Victoria, the Duke'sgreat-grandmother, designed by the French Sculptor Maxime Réal del Sarte. If Queen Mary cannot take Duchess Wally, it is a safe bet that Queen Victoria could not have. The Victoria bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wally, Mary, Victoria | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Without further ado the President handed out a statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Into History | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...season: 1) there are only seven clubs in the National Hockey League (the Montreal Maroons folded); 2) there are no longer two divisions in the league; 3) the team that wins the most games at season's end will be awarded the National Hockey League championship without more ado, but the "world championship" will be awarded as heretofore to the winner of the post-season Stanley Cup play-offs-a complicated round robin in which six of the seven teams will compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Hollywood Boulevard, Mrs. Karl Krueger, wife of the conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, was confronted by one Charles E. McDonald, estranged husband of her companion and maid. Without much ado, Mr. McDonald shot her three times with an automatic. Mrs. Krueger was removed to a hospital, Charles McDonald to a police station. His explanation: "She broke up my home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 29, 1938 | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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