Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your correspondent in Milwaukee, John Muller, who praised you for not printing Lindbergh's picture on the front cover and who prophesied so blithely that one or more Junkers' planes will come gliding into New York with no fuss or fiddling, must now feel like the blatant tactless ass that he gives every appearance of being...
...London, Mayor Walker slipped in and out of his hotel without fuss, cocked his white straw "skimmer" at an acute angle and exhibited a burst of U. S. energy. He went through a mock arrest, telling Sir John Knill, the acting Lord Mayor, "It's the sword makes me own up, my Lord." He dashed to luncheons, teas, handshakings; tried out the Lord Mayor's chair, a chipper urchin among greybeards; rattled questions about London slums and busses; missed his dinner; clapped at the theatre; consoled Mrs. Walker for losing her largest trunk. He startled his Manhattan subordinates...
...German Junker's plane has smashed all endurance records by remaining in the air over 52 hours. The best Lindbergh ever did was 33 hours! Therefore it is a foregone conclusion that one or more Junker's planes will come gliding into New York with no fuss or fiddling. . . . JOHN MULLER Milwaukee...
...demure companionship of Norah Blake. A fashion show helps the entertainment, as does the popular admission charge. But most of the fun is supplied by Actor Carrillo himself, as Lombardi, whose spirit, dammed by linguistic obstructions of all kinds, nevertheless overflows everything in an indomitable, spluttering, blustering fuss...
...scouting agreement between Yale and the teams she will play next fall. Furthermore the Dartmouth Athletic Council, afire with zeal to reform the game, has sent out letters to Brown, Cornell and Harvard Universities, major opponents on next fall's schedule, proposing similar measures. A great deal of fuss has been made over this trival change and we are inclined to agree with the World that when such elaborate means are taken to abolish so trivial a thing as scouting, one cannot help thinking of the shell-shocked veteran who was being examined at an army hospital...