Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educated cinemaddicts are fondest of animated cartoons, particularly Mickey Mouse; 2) cinemaddicts of lower mental rating prefer subdivisions of Drama, like "spiritual struggle," "social and sex problems," "society." Critics of the poll pointed out that: 1) typical cinemaddicts-whose opinions are most valuable-are the least likely to bother writing them on a ballot; 2) producers think they already possess most of the information the poll is intended to disclose. Said Motion Picture Herald: "The industry hardly needs to confess obtuseness by any such gesture...
Nowhere have I seen or heard any evidence that the Class President, the Class Vice-President, the Class Secretary-Treasurer are worth the fuss and bother of their election. All their duty is to nominate their successors; all their qualifications are glory on the athletic field and dance floor; all their constituency is the mere handful of friends who are for the moment sufficiently non-indifferent enough to cast rose petals at their feet through a vague sort of Private School Spirit. No majority enthusiasm or representative election ever seems to take place; the same old Back Bay names...
...this manner during his term of office. Sheriff Farley admitted that he had taken $6,000 in interest pay ments, was vexed to discover that he had overlooked more. He claimed he was legally entitled to it. Large, black-browed, fat-jowled, Sheriff Farley had more to bother about last week than embezzlement, for he was liable to be summarily removed from office by Governor Roosevelt. Two months ago Samuel Seabury, inquisitor of the legislative committee probing Tammany corruption, sent the Governor a list of charges against Sheriff Farley, demanded his ousting. Included was the $360,660 deposited...
...other State in the Union has ever done before. It elected a woman to the U. S. Senate. She is Hattie Wyett Caraway, the small, steady-eyed, straight-mouthed widow of Senator Thaddeus Horatius Caraway. Already sitting in the chamber by appointment of Governor Parnell, Mrs. Caraway did not bother to return to Arkansas to campaign against two feeble independents. So poverty-pinched was the election that it entirely lacked a Republican candidate. The first woman elected to the Senate will serve until March 3, 1933 when Governor Parnell, her political sponsor, is likely to succeed...
...time of fame is Christmas, when to it comes all the childish mail addressed to Santa Claus. Also several thousand persons ship its postmaster their Christmas cards and merchandise with the request that he remail them under the Santa Claus postmark. All this is a lot of bother and expense to the deficit-developing Post Office Department in Washington...