Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balls and tarn o'shanter, he had gone over to Prestwick on the west coast andi for the third year running, whipped all the golfers in the land for the British Open Championship. They gave him the champion's belt, to keep permanently. The next year they did not bother to hold the tournament...
Sirs: TIME, June 20, p. 6, col. 3 says "no flies . . . can bother the President. At 3,500 feet . . . flies . . . cease . . . mosquito weakens." Scenic enthusiasts rush for the front platform of cograil-road car up Mt. Washington (6,293 ft. above sea level is the-summit). Fortunate ones spend time brushing away cinders, black flies, mosquitoes. The writer killed a very bloody mosquito 5,500 feet above sea level. Black flies penetrate far above timber line. Scientists may disagree, but I had "bites" to prove my case. Keep the red cover. It will aid newsstand sales. Red-white-blue cover...
...uses 25% more words expressing his appreciation of the Boy Scouts than does Mr. Coolidge. Not being an aspirant to any Ask Me Another prizes, I discontinued there, and have only to offer you this advice. Don't send sample copies with your circular letters, and do not bother to wax so eloquent about TIME to people who have seen or read...
...Dean Gauss said nothing-until last week, when he unexpectedly proclaimed an interpretation of his anti-motor vehicle edict which the laziest of campus sag-spines had to admit partook of Solomonic cunning. "We have so many machines on the ground," Dean Gauss began blandly, "that we do not bother particularly about those up in the air, as a fleet of pursuit planes would be needed for effective control. . . . Anyone may fly over Princeton-but if he lands here, and runs along the ground, we shall class his plane as a motor vehicle and return...
President Hopkins merely invites serious discussion of a persistent and bother some question. There is no excuse for avoiding it. Boston Globe...