Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwilling witness of an execution, the disintegration of one's own Personality. . . . I lost my grip." Asked what he thought about the neurotics of the '20's whom he pictures in This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Author Fitzgerald moaned: "Why should I bother myself about them? . . . Some became brokers and threw them selves out of windows. Others became bankers and shot themselves. Still others became newspaper reporters. And a few successful authors. Oh my God, successful authors...
...Therefore Mr. Curley decided to show them. In 1934 he campaigned his way into the governorship, and promptly took political possession of the State in his own right instead of that of the New Deal. And when Governor Curley decided to run for the Senate, he did not even bother to put out the Democratic incumbent, Marcus Allen Coolidge. Senator Coolidge was simply dumped by the wayside; the Democratic convention automatically endorsed Mr. Curley. By way of protest to Massachusetts' respectable citizens, the Senator's son-in-law, Mayor Robert E. Greenwood of Fitchburg, ran against the Governor...
...even the great New Deal power controversy failed to make the conference sparkle like a success. Delegates dozed over technical papers. Foreigners spent a great deal of time sightseeing, golfing, attending parties at embassies and legations. Numbers of them did not even bother to appear while their own papers were being discussed. At some sessions no more than 50 auditors turned up. When the next World Power Conference was allotted to Japan in 1942, cynics added "if another is ever held...
...Caudron-Renault in which he set the world's onetime land-plane speed record of 312 m.p.h., he walked off with the preliminary Greve Trophy Race. This victory made Detroyat the overwhelming favorite, though no foreign flyer hadwever i won the Thompson Trophy before. This thought did not bother the burly Frenchman. Without the slightest trouble, he drummed into the lead, won the $9,500 first-prize money with a new world's closed-course speed record for land planes of 264 m.p.h...
...tugged at his cow's udders, the ordinary dairyman of the great dairy State of New York had plenty to bother him last week besides keeping Bossy's tail out of his eyes...