Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ENGLISH. Don't bother much about the play. Just go to watch George...
...institution of divisional examinations for the graduating classes of Harvard, we must expect to find that as a concordia discors there will spring up the tradition of railing against them as so much unnecessary inhibition, as so much of that traumatic stuff which Freud would assure us will bother the graduates for the remainder of his celibate or marital existence--chiefly the latter, for it is a sorry truism, known even to a Freshman, that man gives hostages to fortune in monogamy, and even in polygamy. . . . But we digress. What we meant to say was that in this communication...
...Bother Mother. Rather a good title, this. Rather a good cast, too, was assembled. Decidedly a terrible show, the audience thought. In plot, it was one of those domestic comedies. The appearance was for special matinees. The idea was to establish it in an evening theatre if it made...
...Maxwell and many other writers, he started his artistic career drawing rather than writing and then discovered his aptitude lay in the telling of stories. Perhaps this explains why he has always preferred to dwell more on intimate character sketches of Cape Cod folk rather than to bother too greatly with plot. He sees his quaint people whole and puts them on paper so, sketches them lightly and then inks them in with dialogue and anecdote, the situation furnishing a light background to the picture. The other thing I discovered about Mr. Lincoln was that when...
Concerts are beginning to lose the careless informality of other days. Neither the performers nor the audience used to bother much about getting to them on time. It used to be long after the appointed hour before the conductor made his initial bow, and long after that before any appreciable portion of those to whom he was supposedly bowing began to trickle in. And it never used to be long before they started to trickle out again. All of which was a circumstance not particularly favorable to the perfect audition of orchestral music...