Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Part of the time he paid his way by tutoring two small boys. When his leg began to bother him and he had to have another operation he lost his job. But he soon got another as courier to a bevy of ten Southern girls. Everywhere they went Traveler Walter did his best to meet the national celebrities, apparently never failed to get his man. Hindenburg received him, chatted with him a couple of hours. He had an audience with Mussolini, was photographed shaking hands with Il Duce proving he had been there (see cut). The late Sir Thomas Lipton...
...compendium of their joint knowledge "the medicinal, culinary, cosmetic economic properties, cultivation and folklore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs trees with all their modern scientific uses." It purports to be the first comprehensive medicinal herbal since the time of Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54), Stuart sir and astrologer. It may bother U. S. Medicine as it bothers English Medicine...
...Oxford very few of the good men bother with a training in English literature or European history. They have already been pretty well saturated in these things at home, and the scholarship system encourages it in the school. The interest has been built up so well that it can be trusted to nourish itself. The English undergraduate is infinitely better prepared for labor problems by drinking in politics at every pore than is his American equivalent by a course in American National Problems. English families sometimes cat and sleep politics, American families tend to be bored by them...
...young Napoleon, gave General Fournier an idea or two. He ordered two gross of tricolored arm bands, drew up the 200 reporters in the public square last week, gave each one a rifle and sent them, happy as schoolboys, to hunt bandits in the woods by themselves and not bother him any more...
...leader who will be Mr. Speaker if the House falls into the hands of his party. Grumbling a little, he climbed over the olive-colored side of an Army ship at Uvalde, Tex. When the white-haired Texan climbed out stiffly at Boiling Field he remarked: "It didn't bother me even if it was the first time I was in one of the dang things. As soon as I got used to the noise it sang me to sleep." Fumbling in his pockets he found that his devout wife had armed him with a Bible text: "The spirit...