Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was a new challenge for frock-coated Kenneth McKellar. He has had no serious opposition in his last five elections. In 1940 and 1946, he didn't even bother to campaign. But now the source of his greatest political power-the well-oiled machine of Memphis Boss E. H. Crump-was still sputtering from the ditching Senator Estes Kefauver and Governor Gordon Browning gave it in 1948. There was nothing for McKellar to do but go back to Tennessee and show himself to the voters...
...Duke of Gloucester wasn't there," said one. "And there wasn't a single member of the royal family in the wedding picture," added another, "except, of course, the Princess Royal, and she had to be-being the groom's mother." "Margaret didn't even bother to wear a new dress," sniffed a third, pointing out (correctly) that the Princess' grey lace had made its debut at Ascot a month before...
...when he walked into the red brick hospital building in suburban Neuilly. The doctor saw that it was not a fresh break, asked why he had not come in sooner. "Oh," said the Texan, "I figured it would knit by itself and wasn't important enough to bother the hospital about...
...work. "Technique?" he scoffs. "Of no importance. Color? Put it anywhere. It's the art of establishing relations that matters." He has few rules, but he places feelings ahead of ideas. "If I were able to do a painting mentally," said Georges Braque last week, "I would never bother to paint...
Bread & Butter Note. In Greeneville, Tenn., after D. G. Wills escaped from the city jail, he wrote officials: "I'm very sorry I walked out...but I won't be back to bother you any more...