Word: bothering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publication of the vote revealed the interesting fact that 22 Democrats voted for Mr. West while only 15 voted against. Had all Democrats voted against Mr. West, they could thus have vexed and balked President Coolidge. They did not do so because 1) It was too late to bother about Coolidge vexations, and 2) Mr. West had convinced them of his suitability...
Fifty years after he was born in the Tyrolean Alps in Ruttka, Austria (now Czechoslovakia), John Daniel Hertz retired from business. He had enjoyed the fight to get rich; but, now, why bother about it any longer? He has a pleasure-loving wife who, in turn, has a stable full of fine horses, including Reigh Count, winner of the Kentucky Derby, now in England getting primed for more victories. Wherever Mr. Hertz goes in the U. S. he can ride in the taxicabs which he has made numerous, famous, inexpensive. He is going to Florida, to Europe...
...successor, renewed the Cat Creek contract last year without getting the Department of Justice's opinion. Last week Attorney General Sargent advised Secretary of the Interior West that, in view of the secret option, the Cat Creek contract was illegal, void. This time, Dr. Work did not bother to say, as he said of the Salt Creek incident: "People are tired of hearing of these oil leases...
...Hoover secretaries darted hither and yon with slips of paper, chalk and chalk-erasers, like marker boys in a brokerage office. Mr. Hoover worked with them for a while, then sat in the front row of chairs, smoking a pipe. The buzzing crush of people seemed to bother him. He went into his study. Telephone calls were incessant. He discouraged premature congratulations, wandering between living room and study...
...Davis-LaFollette (15 to 8 to 5) but the electoral margin was such as to suggest that unless issues develop to split the Republican Party within itself during the next four years, the re-election of 1932 might as well be a perfunctory one-party affair, to save public bother and private expense. With a Republican Congress, an efficient nationwide party organization, good times and peaceful problems to start his record on, Herbert Hoover appeared to have the U. S. more completely in the hollow of his hand than any President since Roosevelt...