Word: fussbudget
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Privy Seal "Jim" Thomas, domestic, fun loving, is the most colorful character in the new Cabinet. Famed is his Welsh-plus-Cockney accent, his fondness for smoking room stories. Londoners chuckled last week recalling the occasion when as Colonial Secretary in 1924 he was anxiously interviewed by ultra Conservative, fussbudget Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks...
Senator Tydings leaped up, livid. Senator Robinsop, himself only 47 years old and no weakling, strode to meet him. Senator Fess, Ohio's little fussbudget, rushed between the near-combatants waving a copy of the Senate rules. Senator Robinson had to retract his epithets. Senator Tydings sat down and chewed his gum again, glaring, angry...