Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girls smile and on their prettiest dresses. And for the first time in the last two weeks he is able to enjoy it all. His tickets of many colors have been distributed for better or for worse; his packing boxes stand ready in the hall; he has ended the bother of reading endless notices by memorizing the entire program for Commencement Week. All the relatives are here and Aunt Fanny has been discreetly installed on Brattle Street...
...worn out by overwork and fatigue, exhausted by the thousands of blows on your heels or overwhelmed by business worries? If you are, do not bother with O'Sullivan's and patent medicines; buy a copy of Shakspere and rid yourself of all your trouble. Shakspere is advised as a sedative for the hurrying crowds of New York, and perhaps having tried all other methods of avoiding fatigue, some few may adopt this suggestion like the man who increased his Ford's efficiency 9643 percent by the purchase of accessories, bought a gallon of gasoline and started for California...
...Matter" is the title of the last chapter; the reader is tempted to apply the phrase to the book. If life is utterly without meaning, if all action is absurd, why bother to talk about it? The answer is that the author does not necessarily believe this himself. He leaves us to assume that, although he has found no clue to life, he allows us, and occasionally himself to hope that there may nevertheless be some answer to the riddle...
...very conservative, and the one who keeps to his horses will rail against the one who uses a tractor as an innovator and an idiot, but he will usually buy a tractor himself eventually, and then look down on the poor benighted heathen who uses horses. Consistency does not bother him as it does the upper class conservative. So if the new colony can live, love, and prosper without interference and with reasonable good fortune for any length of time, it should be an immense factor for good. The results will not be startling, or even immediately observable, but they...
...have wondered what earthly interest was to be found in listening to the queer little buzzings that were heard. Suppose that these little buzzings did convey some kind of a message, what of it? If messages were wanted the newspapers were full of them. Why go to all the bother of studying a lot of scientific stuff and spend hours trying hopeless experiments, when anything of importance could so much more comfortably and easily be read in the morning paper? There is no answer. The one who asks these questions lacks that spirit of adventure which the other possesses. What...