Word: bothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Yale Athletic director, Ogden Miller, about the proposed change in date, but since Miller is on vacation, the outcome of the proposal is still unknown. Should the date be changed, the race would be held on Friday, the 13th of June, but that doesn't seem to bother the Harvard mentor...
This does not seem to bother individual ASCAP members, but last week, in the midst of ASCAP's squabble to get more money out of the radio chains, the Department of Justice began to close in on the society. Under way in Washington were negotiations for a consent decree by which ASCAP would forsake its blanket agreements. Since these blanket agreements have been a major factor in the networks' difficulties with ASCAP, it looked at week's end as if the Department of Justice might spike a major ASCAP gun. Meanwhile the society and the networks continued...
...farmers for whom they were working. One of them did not know the name of the town in which he was born, and another did not know how old he was. When asked for their voting precinct, many of them had never voted. General comment was: "I never bother with voting. Why the hell should I? They wouldn't do nothing for me anyway even if I should vote for 'em." There were wisecracks of course, typically Yankee-about the "red tape" of registration, the "propaganda" in the little bulletin of instructions given to each man, about...
...Ducky-Wucky Medwick, and all three, wearing overalls and carrying paint buckets and brushes, marched into the main dining room bawling: "C'mon folks. Beat it. There's going to be a banquet here in an hour and we gotta get these walls painted. Don't bother about paying for the checks, scram...
...civilians for the fourth successive week of heavy air raids, the people of London began to see themselves as a sort of army of non-fighters who must take their punishment and hold -with self-help and Government help. Among the other millions of London housewives who no longer bother with hats or have lost them amid the debris of smashed homes, Mrs. Winston Churchill tied a spotted scarf over her head and went about the streets with the Prime Minister. "Now, there's a lydy for you!" chirped an appreciative cockney...