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Word: fussed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sank recently off the coast of Massachusetts, and people who criticized the Navy Department have done so unfairly," said Commander R. C. Grady, Professor of Naval Science in an interview with the CRIMSON last night. Commander Grady further stated that if only those people who have made such a fuss over the rescue attempts had seen and understood the difficulties involved in raising the submarine from a depth of 100 feet they would have had no criticism to offer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADY RAPS CRITICS OF NAVY IN S-4 DISASTER | 1/5/1928 | See Source »

...written the light moods of Vienna into many a book; many a book that he has never written now lies in the prolific incubation of notebooks from which they hatch, briefly and pungently, like bright little birds. Author Schnitzler has never visited the U. S. He fears that the fuss and fume of literary idolaters would overwhelm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Daybreak | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...Hearst on the witness stand is a pleasant combination of Sam Weller and Titus Oakes. Not quite sure what the fuss is about, he is perfectly willing to tell the gentlemen all they wish to know. He doesn't like to think money has been paid to senators, but he has seen the documents. Of course his six million dollar holdings in Mexico have nothing to do with the case even if the series was planned when Calles menaced foreign capital last spring. Why, he is endangering his interests for the public's good. He realized there might be International...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CROSEUS CREDULOUS | 12/17/1927 | See Source »

...Manhattan theatre. Eithne Magee, chief actress, was bumped in the head by a potato; rotten eggs squashed stickily against the scenery. Fists flew in the audience; police swooped down in platoons, and the performance proceeded to a dishevelled but triumphant curtain. Horrified Irish residents had precipitated the fuss, irate because Synge's Playboy of the Western World, cast doubts upon the purity of an Irish girl. That the play was presented by their own Irish players, specially imported from Dublin, was no sedative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...worse than the rest of the country as regards wetness," said Pussyfoot, "Colleges are apt to have a reputation for being wet because the shortcomings of a few students get into the papers as typical of all students. If two or three college fellows get drunk and cause a fuss, the story can promptly be found in all the newspapers, but no mention is made of the 10,000 or 20,000 students who ostensibly do not drink. The whole country read the other day of the fraternity in a middle-western university that was found to have a still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE MEN NOT A GANG OF INEBRIATES | 11/11/1927 | See Source »

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