Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This evening we crossed another canal-the Wessem in the Roermond area. A Scottish regiment made the crossing, and they made it "without fuss or bother, with a calmness that comes from lots of experience. The show started at 4 p.m.-dusk here - with a 400-gun barrage which lasted 15 minutes. They fired high-explosive shells for the first twelve minutes, and then finished off with smoke, to blind the enemy. Under cover of the smoke, the troops made their assault...
...have a typical example in the aviation conference. . . . The invitations were made public in September. But did anybody bother to inform the Russians about the invitations officially? No, though there were plenty of opportunities either in Moscow or here. The names of the countries to which the Soviets took exception were never mentioned. The point is: the Russians were not consulted in advance...
Hollywood's redheaded Jeanette MacDonald last week realized one of those classical ambitions which often continue to bother sensationally popular stars. She made her U.S. debut in grand opera. The scene was the late Samuel Insull's Chicago Opera House. The opera was Gounod's tuneful Roméo et Juliette. The result made no operatic history. But even Chicago's seasoned operagoers admitted that the show was better than they had expected...
...hypodermic, and bail set at $500. Though Mr. Gorgak admitted that the treatment had been painless, and that his teeth looked good, he did not plan to pay Mr. Pavlides anything, after all the fuss. "I should pay him nothing," Mr. Gorgak said "-the worry and the bother it cost...
...Band wasn't so bad either, especially when you consider that Ruby, himself, didn't bother to come along, except at intermission, when, of course, bands usually get paid...