Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others of my kind never to attack none who don't belong to them. I believe in God." Then he began to sing "The Other Shore." The sheriff sprang the trap. Isaac Howard plunged through the floor, his song ended. Said the sheriff: "That bastard won't bother you any more." Said Father Collins, "Hell no!" In the hall below someone said: 'That's Isaac Howard." Said another: "You mean that was Isaac Howard." The crowd laughed. Fifteen minutes later the doctor with his stethoscope pronounced Isaac Howard dead. Another spiritual began above, another body plunged...
...that saves the picture and he fortunately appears with a welcome frequency. Mr. Durante, in fact, is the only member of a potentially able cast who refuses to be bogged down by the story. All the rest-simply act as if they knew it was lousy, and so why bother trying; "Palooka," accordingly, possesses just enough merit due to Durante's heroic efforts to make it worth seeing...
...When I finally settled down to completing the manuscript I did not bother de Kruif. ... I undertook a series of expeditions in search of first hand material. My first objective naturally was Dr. Aristides Agramonte, the single surviving member of the Reed Commission. I wrote him. ... On the morning after I had written, the New York Times published the announcement of his death. . . . "The play is to be considered a celebration rather than a representation. I have called it 'Yellow Jack - a History.' The subtitle is pretentious and I have used it in the hope that it will...
Episcopal churchmen tell of how Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, Bishop of Southern Ohio, lately made a visitation in one of his parishes. Getting out of his automobile he carefully locked its doors. "Don't bother to lock your car, Bishop," said the senior warden. "We're all honest around here." Sharply retorted Bishop Hobson: "Oh, no, you're not! You've been using your missionary money to pay your coal bill...
Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, sailing for Europe, aired his views on nine-year-old Pianist Ruth Slenczynski. "All these public appearances are bad for her. And I told her father so. The audiences applaud even when there are mistakes, and eventually the child will not bother to correct mistakes...