Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortage doesn't bother us. We just saddle our cockroaches and drive to town...
...stalls, to rent for 50? each a day. They persuaded a millionaire oil producer, Earl Gilmore, to let them use a vacant plot he owned in the Wilshire residential district. Beck wrote radio ads, got them broadcast over KNX on credit. They were directed at farmers ("don't bother to bring us anything but the best"), but shrewdly intended for housewives. Within three months, 3,000 cars were parked out front each day. Now there are 18,000 on Saturdays, 12,000 weekdays. At first the only profit for Dahlhjelm and Beck was $9 a day, split between them...
...Emett's railway carriages is blue with the exhalations of an American Indian sucking his calumet, a Chinese inhaling opium, an East Indian at his hookah and other assorted pipe addicts (the caption, in the mouths of two elderly ladies, is "Bother-it's a smoker!"). An Emett dining car, where rabbit is being served, affords, by virtue of a sharp curve in the track, a view of the train's last car where the demoniac chef is in the act of snatching the bunnies alive from the very roadside. Emett's crazily antiquated rolling stock...
Lieut. Lawson was so eager to get going that the intensive training ("Our planes were in the air at 7 a.m. each morning and sometimes we'd still be at it at 10 p.m.") did not bother him. He thought the B-25 (North America's medium-range Mitchell bomber, stripped of its radio, bottom gun-turret and Norden bombsight) was a lively ship...
...will not divulge his plans, but talk has it that he won't be far outside the 50 mile limit--in fact, at a famous honeymoon lodge on a well known "Cape not far away. On second thought, no one could possibly bother him during the weekend--for the place is over 50 miles from this station, and none of our boys ever go that far. (The Regimental Officer keeps telling himself). So Mel, since we can not go with you, we wish you good luck and all the happiness you so well deserve...