Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auer), whose single ability is that he can imitate a gorilla. He solves the financial woes of Mr. Bullock, who has been looking forward to going to Sing Sing as an embezzler so that he can "get up early, and do my day's work and not' bother about bills...
...G.O.P. nominee argued that the East did not know him, that he was going to introduce himself first by a discussion of general principles and not deal with specific campaign issues until later. His West Middlesex speech was, in fact, so fundamental that the Democratic high command did not bother to controvert its generalities. At Chautauqua Governor Landon discussed Education in a broad way, made news principally by breaking with William Randolph Hearst, his No. 1 press supporter on the worth of Teachers' Oaths...
...Tuberculosis Commission were in the habit of canvassing students for funds. The Council has made an arrangement with such organizations whereby they will not do this canvassing but will be paid by the Student Council in behalf of the student body. This saves the students from the bother of continually being asked for contributions, and further, the Council is in a position to investigate the individual charity before money is given...
Last week's confession did not bother the majority of the bondholders because interest on their securities is guaranteed by United Gas Improvement Co., which is also stuck with 88% of the company's preferred stock and nearly one-half the common. Presumably UGI knew what was up. But since the first of the year investors have"bought 19.500 shares of Connecticut Railway & Lighting common at the Stock Exchange's ten-share post for as high as $20 per share. Three minutes with an investment manual would have convinced anyone that the stock was a sale...
...contests-to announce which the Committee did not even bother, when the loudspeakers broke down, to furnish an amateur badge-wearer with a second-hand megaphone-were in athletic merit probably equal, if not superior to those which a cosmopolitan crowd of 100.000 will witness in Berlin's Olympic Stadium next month. In twelve of the scheduled events, the U.S. has competitors who have made better times or distances than any European rivals. In the five remaining events, the entrants at the Randalls Island meet were, by & large, as competent as the entrants in the same events will...