Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evolution, denounces the Roman Catholic Church, flays the "liquor crowd," excoriates birth control and divorce, thunders against bridge, cigarets, the cinema. The fact that in 1926 he shot and killed one D. E. Chipps, friend of Fort Worth's mayor whom Pastor Norris was then denouncing, did not bother the Baptists of First Church. Pastor Norris said he shot (four times) in self-defense because he thought Chipps was armed. A trial jury believed...
...Victoria Lincoln's excellent novel. If the publishers had been looking for a more accurate, though perhaps less cunning, device for gaining publicity they might have called it a study in contrasting morals. It is true that Minna Harris, the strongest character in the book, finds little time to bother herself with moral reflections. She is a June among prostitutes who supports her family on the profits of her popularity among travelling sports. The family includes, besides four children, a sot of a husband and Minna's unregenerate mother. But both Vergil Harris, the husband and Grandma, are set pieces...
...professional football has been constantly gaining in popularity; if collegiate football descends to the same plane it will soon be finished. There is not reason to believe that university officials could hire better football teams than could professional promoters. As a result of professional team superiority, no one would bother particularly about the so-called intercollegiate games, and gate receipts would collapse...
TIME'S otherwise meritorious "Ink & Air" (TIME, Oct. 29) contains one absurdity, which becomes apparent when the unequivocal "If Radio also broadcast complete news, many a listener would not bother with newspapers" is paraphrased to read, "If TIME broadcast complete March of TIME, many a listener would not bother with TIME...
...news-thirsty public bought 35,175,000 newspapers every day. Last year national advertisers paid $49,500,000 to radio broadcasters because 18,500,000 households listen to Radio's music, patter and melodrama every day. If Radio also broadcast complete news, many a listener would not bother with newspapers...