Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sometimes he admits losing his temper ("We have lost our tempers to the point of neurasthenia. . . ."), sometimes he does it before your eyes: "Do not bother me about leaflets: I am not a machine and cannot work in the present disgraceful situation. . . . For Christ's sake do understand. . . . Unforgivable and shameful . . . simply a disgrace and death to the cause! . . . Yet here you are busy with the devil knows what kind of dirty business! ... If we don't break with the Central Committee and with the Council, then we shall only be worthy of being spat at." When...
...importing company whose telephone service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John Unseld, German-born proprietors of an Elizabeth, N. J. chicken farm, who had signed their ticket "Happy Easter." Said Farmer Unseld: "Chickens are more bother than they're worth. Maybe I'll build an apartment house. Maybe I'll lease a farm. Maybe I'll go back to Germany. Who knows what I'll do? I'm entirely satisfied." Winners Vogt, Fitzgerald and Unseld had each sold half interest...
...press ousted "Mr. X" Madill loudly rehearsed his misfortunes: "The Judge told me to keep away from Mrs. Clarke and not bother her any more. But I wanted to have one more talk with...
...witness both of them. But the spectator had best arrive early for the basketball game, for those 2000 seats are going to go early, and if he isn't lucky enough to have one of those valuable little pasteboards for the swimming meet, he might as well not even bother to try and get in but sit back and listen to it over WAAB...
...State Supreme Court, reviewing the embezzlement case, found Parker innocent in February 1934. Meanwhile, Harrison Parker was doing everything in his power to make the Tribune sick at the thought of him. Discovering that since 1873 the paper had paid no State capital stock tax (few Illinois corporations bother to). Harrison Parker filed suit as a citizen to compel the Tribune...