Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark afternoon. A grey drizzle made the court slippery and the bad footing seemed to bother Crawford. It did not bother Vines. After a week of good but not brilliant tennis, he suddenly found his game. His backhand, weak the day before, was suddenly a magnificent offensive stroke. His drives lashed the uttermost corners of Crawford's back court. Crawford said afterward that Vines's first serve "seemed to hit the court the same instant it left the racket." Vines followed it to the net and smashed Crawford's returns so hard that the ball kicked...
...exhibition by his 7-year-old daughter; in Brooklyn. Mrs. Higgins said her husband had been fired upon by two gangster-laden sedans but police believed he had stopped to chat with two friends who suddenly opened fire. Questioned by Police Lieutenant McGowan, Racketeer Higgins replied: "Don't bother me, Mac. I'm sick." Just before he died he mumbled: "I've got to live. .. . Gotta straighten this out. . . . They tried to wipe out my whole family, the dirty rats." Police learned that Gangster Higgins had boasted widely of his daughter's dancing, that at least...
Readers of Author Zweig's novelties will realize, to their horror, that the forsaken female of mid-Victorian romances is alive & kicking yet. The only modern touch about her reappearance is that she is deflowered by a hero who does not bother to ask her name. Famed Novelist R. (for Zweig?) returns to Vienna after his holidays to find among his customary fanmail a fat letter superscribed ''To you, who have never known me." He reads on to learn that the unknown woman's only child has just died, that she is going to pour...
...catchword became "the greatest happiness of the greatest number." Bashful, eccentric, fond of giving names to things, he spent his last year in a house he called "The Hermitage," whose dining room was to him "The Shop." A crusty personage, he might invite you to spend the day, not bother to give you a meal until 10 p.m. When Mme de Stael visited London she gushed: "Tell Bentham I will see nobody until I have seen him." Grunted Jeremy Bentham: "Sorry for it, for then she will never see anybody...
...discriminating." To earn a Man's share of cash, Author Bennett took up book reviewing, became editor of a magazine for women. With such intensity did he work that on one occasion when a man fell to his death outside his office window, he did not bother to open his window and look out. But Artist Bennett finally revolted, finding that "to edit a lady's paper, even a relatively advanced one, is to foster conventionality and hinder progress regularly once a week." As a lesser evil he chose to earn money by writing sensational fiction, with serious...