Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hospitals good enough for the American Medical Association to bother inspecting. Of those 1,919 (or 70 out of 100) are good grade (on the "approved list"); they have fair to excellent equipment for treatment and research. The situation is not perfect. But it is pleasing to doctors. Ten years ago only 12 out of 100 U. S. hospitals were fit for praise...
...prime minister of Moldavia is negotiating a treaty with the fat King of Wallachia; to contract the alliance is essential, but to do so it is also essential that the Prince of Moldavia marry the proud Princess of Wallachia. The true prince is unwilling to bother with preliminaries; hence the actor is offered his choice between a life-career in the salt mines and a chance to woo by proxy the foreign princess and bring her back for the real prince to wed. He chooses the latter and naturally falls in love with the lady he is supposed to deceive...
...surely prove no handicap. Thus, Mrs. Louise Wilder, deaf and somewhat famed sculptor of babies, last week indicated some of the advantages which she has derived from her deficiency. "Having been deaf for fourteen years I have learned to work entirely by myself never hearing the disturbing noises that bother so many artists in big cities. While others must go to the country for solitude, I have it wherever I am. . . . When critics discuss my work, I miss most of the . . . comments...
...thought $150,000 would build the radio stations, $1,000,000 operate them. More magnificent in plans, he proposed to build 60 locomotives, 150 passenger coaches, 1,300 freight cars. He would establish flying routes between Peking and half a dozen other major cities. But he did not bother to show whence the money would come...
According to Agent Tyson, Hostess Morgan told him she had "an arrangement with Campbell whereby he doesn't bother me any more." "Campbell" was Major Maurice Campbell, Prohibition Administrator for the New York area, whose men illegally axed, smashed and evacuated a club where Hostess Morgan "worked" last winter...