Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Does the baby bother you when you're trying to get the morning's work done? A neighbor down on Oregon Road writes to offer this remedy: Dab a little molasses on baby's hands, set him on the middle of the kitchen floor, and give him a couple of fluffy feathers to play with." For more serious problems, "Aunt Polly" is willing to square away for as much as two pages in reply to such a letter as this recent typical...
...have to go to Rome for " then added, "you must be almost the only woman who does not know Mussolini's face." Pauly apologized, said she didn't know much about politicians. "Brava! Brava!" exclaimed II Duce, "that is a true woman. Women should not bother themselves with politics; their business is in the home...
...found that they also had in common blindness in their left eyes. Quicklime had seared the youth's, cataract bleared the oldster's. Last week old John Wesley Amos told Charity Hospital eye surgeons: "Frank's been very good to me. Not many young fellows would bother to cheer up an old man like the way Frank's done. If you figure one of my eyes can help Frank see, I want you to take my eye and give...
Before automobile and airplane accidents crowded railroad wrecks off front pages ticket agents did a good business passing out $5,000 insurance policies, covering death and disablement and good for one day's travel, at 25? apiece. Now, so phenomenally safe are railroads, fewer riders bother to insure. But air travelers with no such feeling of security are anxious to insure beyond their ordinary life insurance, and insurance groups have long pondered what rates they could make to obtain this potential new business. Last week, Air Transport Association of America announced a new $5,000 policy for airline travelers...
...with scholarships and prizes as is Harvard, rare opportunities for study abroad, such as the Henry Fellowships, are overlooked by eligible undergraduates. There can be but two explanations for this: either students fail to realize that special applications are due before an announced deadline, or else they refuse to bother with them on the assumption that a year at Oxford or Cambridge is wasted time compared to a year's experience in business or profession here. Both of these are incorrect from some viewpoints, and the latter one is particularly unfounded. The Henry Fellowships are helping to dispell this illusion...