Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After one of the briefest inspections in Westminster history. Judge West waved Spicypiece to the winning stall, did not bother to rank the rest. Said he afterward: "She came as close to perfection as one could ask." For Spicypiece's owner. Broker Stanley J. Halle of Chappaqua, N. Y., her win meant a double distinction. His Flornell Spicy Bit of Halleston, also a wire-haired terrier but no kin to Spicypiece, took best in show at Westminster in 1934. For young Peter Garvan there was solid consolation...
...room, sitting room and bathroom. The sitting room had central-heating and a telephone. There was no nonsense about the telephone either. An undergraduate could call his "St. Louis woman" or anyone he liked at any hour of the day or night without any more bother than from his own home. Every set of rooms in the houses had a dial telephone connected directly with the town exchange. The bathroom had every modern convenience except a bath, which is regarded by Harvard men as an out-of-date contraption. America has decided that showers are less enervating and quicker. This...
...past half-hour, in the presence of the House and Senate assembled, Vice President Garner had been opening, Senators George and Austin. Representatives Tinkham and Fletcher counting, the vote of the Electoral College. State by State the landslide vote piled up. At the end the Vice President did not bother to announce the awesome total...
...time in future to preaching Peace. She is no stranger to the U. S. Upon her second arrival, in 1927, many a non-religious person went to hear her talk largely because bluenoses had cackled that she smokes an occasional cigaret. Last week ship newshawks did not bother to ask her about smoking. Said...
...contracts calling for delivery in that month. In the normal course of trading on a cotton futures market, little if any lint is actually delivered. Those who sold cotton short either as a hedge or as a speculation simply buy back their contracts, bringing everybody out even without the bother of handling the staple at all. Messrs. Tullis & Craig, however, demanded real cotton. This they had a perfect right to do, but when the word first spread through the trade early this month, it caused a scramble for the necessary bales. Cotton prices in the past fortnight jumped...