Word: dither
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nonetheless a dither of suspicion persisted that Japan's militarists are now definitely Ethiopia-conscious. In Tokyo famed Foreign Office Spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau said: "The Japanese Government is watching the situation with grave concern because the outbreak of war anywhere is a calamity that indirectly injures many countries besides the combatants. I believe the stories that Japanese capitalists have obtained cotton concessions in Ethiopia are unfounded. The story that an Ethiopian prince was seeking to marry a Japanese girl is groundless. We have received no appeals from Ethiopia, we are not engaged in consultations of any kind regarding...
...estate. In her old limousine she drove from Hollywood to Pasadena, where she hid from prying eyes in a bush with four bodyguards before making a spectacular dash for the Santa Fe train. Outside Chicago, she alighted in the railroad yards, set police and railroad men in a dither getting her a cab. Her next appearance was at Chicago's Union Station where she arrived ten minutes before train time, peeked around a corner, spied some newshawks, then loped on her lively 7AA's to her Pullman, pausing on the vestibule steps to fling her head...
...heavy-booted German army marched through his father's capital in 1914, King Leopold was brought face to face with the onetime Crown Prince of Germany. It was carefully arranged that their suites should be at opposite ends of the Stockholm palace, and court attendants were in a dither with excitement. But when they met in the Town Hall, nothing happened...
...summer camp, a chair at Virginia Union University and an Old Folks Home. And lastly there is the Friendly Society which holds fried chicken socials, pays for sick benefits and funerals of its 1,000 members, and which last week had the Abyssinian Baptist Church in a high dither...
...would do their duty as they saw it. Yet somehow nearly everyone had overlooked the obvious fact that the nine potent, grave and reverend judges would first take a good look at that duty. Last week when the Court in unmistakable fashion began that scrutiny, business fell into a dither, Congress chattered, the Brain Trust fretted and the Attorney General blushed...