Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular FERA allowance for food. The Rev. Charles C. Noble of this city went on the City Store, and the results of his experiment will be of very great value to the authorities broadening the diet which has been allowed to those on relief. I would not bother you with this detail except for the tragic urgency of the situation around here. . . . My only concern is to get it clearly before people that we lost on $12.80 a week instead of the $2.24 which was the figure quoted ... in your review. . . . (REV.) FLETCHER D. PARKER Immanuel Congregational Church Hartford, Conn...
...Benjamin Harrison's time the Department of Interior began to allot farms to the members of the Five Civilized Tribes. To Jackson Barnett, for his very own, went 160 acres in eastern Oklahoma which he did not bother to go and look at. In 1912 after Crazy Jack had lived peaceably through the administrations of 18 Presidents, something happened to him. A man came, gave him $800, got him to put his thumb print on a paper granting the right to drill for oil on his farm for which he was to receive a royalty of one-eighth...
...their wedding at Saratoga during the races: "Sweet, I had a bad day today and I'll need your jewelry for a few days." She could tell when he was losing because although his face did not change, his voice grew flat. She told how he did not bother to watch the finish of a horse-race on which he won $800,000; how he arranged the hoax whereby Nicky Arnstein, for whom New York police had been hunting for six months, rode to headquarters to surrender in a touring car at the rear of a police parade...
...would remove the annoying thought that after all these years the upperclassman must again putter around with testtubes and retorts, with scalpel and tweezers. It would aid materially in transforming the punctilious prep school student to the tutorial student of the college. It would relieve Seniors of the bother some thought that on some sultry day in June on some beautiful blue summer's day, he must sit down and cudgel his brain for the name of that last minute item in a frog...
...Adams House Junior Varsity crew seems to have solved two of the major problems that bother crew coaches. To combat the evil of the boat checking this crew has taken a leaf from the manufacturers of multi-cylinder automobiles. They believe that if there is always at least one oar in the water delivering power, the boat won't have a chance to check--hence the crew's name. "Perpetual Commotion." Likewise, to counteract the ill effects of individual oarsmen rolling out, all eight men loan out both at the catch and the recovery, thereby assuring a perfect...