Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorry to bother you but he seems to be a new man and a very good one and I should like to get in touch with...
There was a wistful air about the first International Patent Exposition, in Chicago last week. Inventors have notorious difficulty in getting money to exploit their devices. Banks will not make loans without established security. Financiers, in general, will not bother with strange new gadgets. It was with hope that volume and diversity would attract money that the inventors worked up their exposition. Some 3,000 men and women put their wares on display...
...stump Mr. Legge had been dramatically aggressive on future wheat plantings because the new Board had no precedents to bother about. Over his head hung no 275.000,000 bu. (the Board's July 1 figure) of wheat "stabilized" on Government funds. He was almost a free agent...
...finish the job and get back to barracks before lunch. Near a straggling corn patch they found the broken end of the wire drooping from a pole. Though this was the most dangerous district in Nicaragua, the Marines had had no serious trouble for months. The party did not bother to send out patrols. One private shinnied up the pole with a pair of pliers in his teeth, others stretched new wire along the ground. Sergeant Arthur M. Palrang, in the manner of sergeants directing operations, sat on his mule...
...pane of glass, a parchment, a piece of poplar wood. If you are tired of new-fangled fiction-detective methods, if you still have a warm spot in your heart for the school of Sherlock Holmes, you will give Colonel Braxton your friendly attention. Otherwise do not bother...