Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rapscallion. When he might have been brooding over crops, he was strumming a mandolin, playing at country dances, barnstorming in minstrel shows. During the Civil War he commanded a Negro detachment called Company G. One day he heard a dusky private muttering, "Shoo, fly, don't bother me." Thereupon Bishop wrote another song which every soldier sang...
When the Spanish and Portuguese South American Empires broke up into great modern states in the early 19th Century, two bobtail leftovers were Bolivia and Paraguay. Portuguese Brazil did not bother to annex the lazy, primitive Guarani Indians sweltering in the low plateaus and lagoon-lands between the Paraguay and Parana Rivers. After Paraguay became an independent nation, the Spanish family of Lopez took it over and willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred...
Boston's stout-hearted old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, who did not bother to mention Father Coughlin by name, is the radio priest's highest-placed Catholic critic. So the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters was well aware what the "dean of the U.S. hierarchy" meant when he addressed their meeting: "There are a million ways in which any citizen of America can voice his views, but it ought to be done with self-respecting honesty and, above all, the proper respect due to superiors. . . . Oftentimes the faith of our good people is tested by those...
...shot for having joined in the lost rebellion of Greece's Grand Old Man Eleutherios Venizelos (TIME, March 11 et seq.). So obvious was it to everybody that the two generals' last wish was death to the victorious enemies of Venizelos, that the two did not bother to say anything. Thereupon the firing squad blew them down dead...
...almost seemed as though he was playing for time, for a few more minutes of life," recalled Oda Kayse, the Smithland telephone operator. "It didn't bother me, but I guess it did some of the other women. I wouldn't mind seeing another hanging...