Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writes with her accustomed sub-humorous kindliness of the little girl she was. Readers who missed the first volume of her reminiscences (Marbacka, 1924) will be well advised not to miss this second. Author Lagerlöf's world is a settled, mildly prosperous land whose natives bother their heads more about the price of eggs than the noble army of martyrs. On the modest but hereditary family estate of Marbacka, Selma Lagerlf spent most of her childhood. Her sister Anna was the beauty of the family; Selma was towheaded and not pretty, had been sent away to Stockholm...
...Castillo, sister of a haciendado who had supported Madero but refuses to support Villa. He takes Chihuahua by storm and executes General Pascal by smearing him with honey, feeding him to ants. He marches into Mexico City at the head of an army of 60,000. Rather than bother with a budget, he has $100,000,000 in bills sent over from the printers...
Within 48 hours after their appointment Dr. Wolman convened his fellow members in Detroit, and began to receive a half hundred union complaints against discrimination by automobile manufacturers. Promptly he made two announcements: 1) "Rules of evidence will not bother us. We will . . . let the men tell their stories in their own words." 2) "In order to avoid friction . . . there should not be any solicitation for membership in either unions or company representation plans during working hours...
...connect the late Alexandre Stavisky and the great "international spy ring" about which the French police were growing so eloquent following the confessions of U. S. Citizen Robert Gordon Switz & wife. The pay is too small and the risks too great for a swindler like Sacha Stavisky to bother with international espionage. But one connection between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare for all it was worth in a gallant if hopeless effort to distract an enraged...
...that the new President is a dog fancier--nor that the desires to perpetuate the tradition of President Lowell's "Phantom," of sacred memory. But these alumni profess an interest in President Conant's physical well-being. They knew that when he worked in the laboratory he didn't bother much about exercise, but they feel that as President he should indulge in a daily constitutional. The spaniels would make him go walking, and incidentally survey the beauties of Harvard Yard...