Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other London companies which perform opera undistinguished by the vague adjective "grand," or by the fuss and bustle of a "season's opening," are the British National Opera Company, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (solely Gilbert & Sullivan operas), the Royal Carlo Rosa Opera Company (all-English cast), the Royal Victoria Hall Company...
Apropos of this paragraph: I read it to my wife (we are Jewish) who recently was thrown by an automobile on our principal thorofare, and who, contrary to your innuendo, made no fuss when she discovered that she had no injuries beyond a few bruises; that, even though the motorist was traveling along entirely beyond a reasonable rate of speed. Just yesterday she related her experience to a neighbor, who embraces the Christian faith, and this neighbor asked her hastily and excitedly, "Did you get anything"? and added, "I would not have let him get away with...
...almost 20 years since he had been there. It was characteristic that he had made no fuss about going back. Doubtless he subscribed to the popular belief that it was his successor, General George Washington Goethals, who "put the Canal through." And indeed General Goethals did: he conquered that greatest foe of his predecessors, yellow fever, so that the blue prints might come true. But to the blue print aspect of the Canal no man contributed more than John F. Stevens did during his regime, from June, 1905, to April, 1907. Before he resigned President Taft had named him "Father...
...Miss Millay strikes a tone of modern cynicism. Aelfrida appears before the royal guest in all her glory, wearing a golden robe, splendid in her favorite gems. The betrayer is betrayed. He plunges his dagger into his heart. He commits suicide in a "nice" way, explains Miss Millay. No fuss, tenor solo, orchestral pomposity; no sentimental worblings of lost love and noble remorse. Like a true Saxon, he quietly takes his life, "for himself," not glory or revenge. Aelfrida weeps but Eadgar says to her: "Thou hast not tears enough in thy narrow
...most intimate of intimate musical comedies, the last word in informality. For a large part of the play, plot is disregarded, and everyone on the stage proceeds to have a good time. So does everyone in the audience. There is no attempt made at ostentation--absolute lack of fuss or pretense of any kind is one of the show's chief charms We are all so accustomed to the professional air in musical comedy, where the audience is patronized and made to feel it will get its money's worth and no more, that the unstudied informality and zest...