Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Business School is always a good customer, particularly noticeable since of necessity the boys across the river get their liquor by delivery instead of on a cash and carry basis. "Freshmen? They don't bother us much," said one veteran dealer...
...bother about Czechoslovakia!" was Il Duce's prophetic comment in 1933. "Czechoslovakia will fall to pieces within ten years by the natural development of Germany...
Associate Justice McReynolds did not bother to attend, but the other seven members of the Supreme Court of the United States gravely met this week for 18 minutes, to open their 1938-39 term...
...shortage of those eminently bourgeois institutions, savings banks, seemed particularly to bother Commissar Zverev. who deplored that "430 districts of the Union are completely deprived of savings institutions." He promised to open this year 5,700 new savings banks. Finally he gave a sweeping pledge to "rationalize" the now almost infinitely complex taxation system of the Soviet Union, announced some progress already made: "We have rationalized in the food industry where, instead of 608 tax rates, we have introduced but 167. We are also revising the taxation system in the wool, cotton and silk industries. But this is not enough...
...Iraq servant problem (they had 15, costing a total of $153 a month). When they imported garden seed from England, the gardener threw out everything except onion seed, because he didn't like lettuce and such stuff. When a houseboy was married, they were put to much bother to provide a special room, because young Mohammed didn't want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been satisfactory only the first...