Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirty pirates were arrested by Chinese authorities and charged with attacking British ships in South China waters. To avoid legal proceedings, useless fuss and bother, two were shot in public, the remainder were enrolled in Sun Yat-Sen's army to be shot by the enemy...
...Since 1903 Colombia insisted that the "Panama Canal deal" was a felony and demanded compensation. In 1921, after much noise and fuss, the U. S. settled with Colombia...
Edward B. McLean, Washington publisher: "I returned to West Palm Beach from Washington after testifying before the Senate oil investigating committee. Said I, commenting on the crowds that attended the hearing: 'You would have thought I was Bergdoll being brought home from Germany. I never saw so much fuss over nothing in my life...
...Summer. The editor of the News-Miner is going to bring it to this country and give it to William Allen White, editor of The Emporia Gazette. Mr. White will present the type to the Associated Press at the annual meeting of that body in April. Why all this fuss about a bit of type? It was the last type ever set by Warren Gamaliel Harding...
Ralph Pulitzer, son of Joseph, wrote in tribute: "He thought simply and hated sophistry. He wrote simply and hated florid phrases. He lived simply and hated fuss and feathers. He succeeded simply and became a power and a personality in the United States, writing editorials he did not sign in a paper...