Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haired Dr. Richard Monohan scurried around Ontario's Glengarry riding, made dozens of speeches promising everyone "$100 a month when you are 55." Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, running for election because he needed a seat in the House of Commons (TIME, July 2), did not bother to campaign at all. Last week Mr. King won. The score...
...doing, Baby? How about us coming up? It's not verboten any more.' His conversation was a combination of German, French, English and arm motions. A few minutes later the two soldiers ambled through the front door of the two-story cottage. This reporter did not bother to find out how Brigitte and Corporal Harry had become so friendly without being able to talk to each other...
...Duchess: Oh bother! Go summon a jury--a prejudiced one, mind...
...Bother Me!" Such forthright esthetic aims filled the new generation of esthetes with scorn and contempt. By 1870, a furious, no-quarter battle was under way that lasted until the century's end. To the artistic rebels, the oldtime Victorian painter kowtowed to an ignorant, over-sentimental public. He also debased the sanctity of art by making line and form play second fiddle to maudlin subject matter and moss-backed morality...
...sake-in which the painter recognized that natural subjects simply existed. "No poem," declared Poet Charles Baudelaire, a pioneer in the new movement, "is so great, so noble ... as that which has been written simply for the pleasure of writing a poem." "Don't bother me!" snapped the great Edouard Degas when he was asked to exhibit his work. "Is painting meant to be looked...