Word: bothering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people-sightseers who wander through the State Capitol at Albany, N. Y., are apparently no bother at all to Nominee Smith in his conduct of his state's business. He even permits them to stop, look and listen in the executive chamber while he holds hearings as New York's chief magistrate...
...Iowa then call on Senator Norris and beg him to reconsider? And did Senator Norris then refuse a third time? Such were the stories told last week in Omaha by one Mat Greevy and the Omaha World-Herald. Newsgatherers considered the stories so improbable that they did not bother to seek denial or confirmation from busy Nominee Hoover, whose door is guarded by a chubby secretary and the expletive: "A lot of foolish nonsense!" (see LETTERS...
There 60-year-old Bluebeard Drat said to his police guards, "Kill me right away, don't bother me with questions about women...
...befitting vacuocaputs. Do you think for a moment you can get away with that "etc., etc.,"? Must you confess you were stumped, or were you too lazy to look up any more Gentile names? Whichever it was, the "etc., etc.," was very derogatory and left the impression of, "Why bother to mention any more Gentiles? There are ever so many brilliant millions of Gentile composers," as you doubtlessly intended your note to effect...
...sportsman, clubman, orator, onetime (1924-27) president of the Harvard Club of Manhattan. He was a big man in his class at Harvard (1890), but not a P. B. K. man. His dissent, entitled "Fools Trespass When Angels Keep Off the Grass," appearing in the Harvard Advocate, did not bother with statistics. He did not try to prove ; he knew. ' He simply wielded his own bludgeon: "The Phi Beta Kappa men have apparently disappeared, and those who gave little promise in their studies at college seem to keep the Harvard flag flying and have taken important positions...