Word: bothered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named Kern, Gershwin, and Hammerstein, contribute a hearty portion of sparkling entertainment. The plot--since movies, it seems, must have plots--is bad enough to be annoying, but unobnoxious enough to be ignored. Robert Young struggles to keep it going; the fact that he doesn't succeed doesn't bother anyone, least of all the audience...
...about Boy Town and fist fights. There are Mother's efforts to make both ends meet, Grandma's efforts to break up the children's ungodly card playing. Grandma found that burning a whole pack of cards in the stove in her room was too much bother, so she sabotaged sin by slyly removing just one card from each new deck. It was always the ace of spades, and Author Partridge believes the old lady thought the ace was the devil's hoofprint...
This process, the sorting of approximately 14,000 course slips, which takes 30 men about eight hours, doesn't bother Leonard and his cohorts a bit. It is what he calls "research work" that bothers him, the translation of unreadable names, or tracking courses that don't exist through the catalogue of studies. That's the kind of thing, says Leonard, that upsets his system...
...bother to change my subscription address. I shall be in Kansas City within a month, having taken a splendid vacation at the expense of Union Pacific...
...Royal; 4) to break down confidence in harassed enemy governments the Nazis quote and misquote important local sources: for example, in one recent week, they misquoted the Manchester Guardian criticizing Churchill, misquoted the august Times discussing supply policies. They evidently felt sure that no average listener would bother to check up on their accuracy...