Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprising to find that sort of editorial in a college paper, because undergraduate editors have a flair for making asses of themselves from time to time. The surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously instead of ignoring it as the students themselves do. E. Waldo Long Boston Transcript
...great majority were carried out. The lawns adjoining were littered with the bodies of the dead and dying, all yellow from the gas. Rescue squads worked over them with pulmotors. Only those who received immediate oxygen treatment survived. One man who had escaped said, "The gas didn't bother me. Help the others who are dying." Five minutes later he collapsed and died on the way to a hospital. An X-ray salesman who had been in the building, although warned to go to a hospital, insisted on helping the rescuers. He soon gave up, presented himself, laughing...
...race Columbia's crew sat up very straight and flattened their oars as crews do when they finish first. Three lengths behind them the Navy men were still rowing. A little later they too flattened their oars but they did not bother to sit up straight. Still later, U. S. Subchaser No. 440, which had carried the Navy shells and oars from Annapolis to the Harlem River, took them back to Annapolis. Glendon Jr. did not answer his father's telegram. He merely remarked to questioners, "Oh, that's an old New England saying...
...forgotten the date. It is really March 4 now, isn't it? No, I don't think I shall tune in. What I want to do is shoot some golf." Asked if he had sent a message to Mr. Hoover, he answered, "Why should I bother him to read a telegram from me? I called on him a while ago personally and gave him my good wishes." Out on the golf course while the inauguration was going on he ejaculated, "This is the life...
...know I never bother to memorize the words to my songs very carefully, and even if I did, I wouldn't remember them. I just put in 'Get hot!' or 'Come on, brother, smoulder!', wherever I forget the words, and it goes over just as well...