Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...landing field to turn on the lights. Lieut. Dietz pushed on to Crisfield, where his ship hit a tree and a telephone pole trying to land. The motor was thrown free and so was Lieut. Dietz. His skull was fractured, but he managed to shout: "Don't bother anything in the plane! Take care of the mail...
...whom the curse might be expected to rest heavily is healthy Herbert Eustis Winlock, the Metropolitan Museum's present Curator of Egyptology, who was very much in the thick of things at Luxor. Not for ten years did skeptical Mr. Winlock, 50 this week, bother to comment on the curse legend. In Manhattan last week, concerned about his friend and predecessor, he called the Boston hospital daily to learn Dr. Lythgoe's condition. When he found the hospital telephones so jammed by calls from curse-believers that he could hardly get his own calls through, Mr. Winlock...
...tomorrow, it would only provide a human interest story for the Boston American, with cuts, and a new job for the Physics profs. The latest cheerful dispatch from Manchukuo, indicating the altruistic mission of a large body of soldiery to "deal with bandits on the Siberian frontier" doesn't bother anyone but the Russians, who, as everyone knows, don't count. In fact, all the European countries are wishing they could run excursion trains into the maritime provinces in the spring to cheer the Japs as they munch the bored cadavers of stagnant Siberians. In short, the world is walking...
Never inclined to bother much about Siam's frequent revolutions which thus far have never been against his Crown, easy-going King Prajadhipok bade his countrymen farewell: "May my people maintain peace and unity during my absence, which is necessitated by reasons of health...
JACK ROBINSON-George Beaton- Viking ($2.50). Author "George Beaton" (a pseudonym) subtitles his picaresque novel "an adventure in two worlds" (action, ideas). Readers who find one world at a time enough to bother about can hurdle the ideas in their stride without being tripped. The story of a runaway boy's adventures among the tramps of the English countryside, the down-&-outers of London, Jack Robinson really has two narrators: the unthinking but observant boy, the almost too reflective man he afterwards becomes. Without these sessions of sad, silent thought, Jack Robinson would be a straightaway racy tale...