Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy's other conquest of the week fell even more quietly. As Germany without fuss took what she wanted of Slovenia, Rome announced with nourishes that it had "annexed" the Slovene border city of Ljubljana, set up an "autonomous province of Ljubljana." The Romans pulled out of there in the Fifth Century...
...production were ever stepped up, the Army would have to do it, because there is no commercial use for the big mirrors. When the call came they were ready, quietly went to work. The $600,000 Mariemont plant was started last September, six months later was completed. Without fuss or feathers red-faced Captain Frank H. Forney put it into production, soon had it turning out reflectors fast enough to forget the bottleneck...
...that police were summoned. Psychiatrists gravely speculated on what made the bugs jitter. Last week came an answer: they were hired to. Haled into a Manhattan court was Irving ("Schnitz") Davidson, boss of an organization called "The 200 Characters," who could be had to dance in aisles, make a fuss over celebrities arriving in railroad stations, mob people for autographs, carry instruments for orchestra players. Charged with assault on a muscler-in on his trade, Boss "Schnitz" was let off with a suspended sentence and a warning to break...
Last week Ordnance dedicated with due fuss & feathers the first of its three new smokeless powder plants. Standing in the soggy red clay of southwest Virginia (six miles from Radford), 22,000 workmen who had done the job heard praises for their work from such military bigwigs as Under Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson, Major General Charles Macon Wesson. Earlier, visitors and workmen had strolled through Radford's 4,400 scarred acres, inspected its 639 small and scattered buildings, seen demonstrations of escape chutes (see cut) for quick slides to safety when fire and powder get together...
...hitch in the Navy, Benny went under his real name, Benjamin Kubelsky. After the war he changed to Ben K. Benny, adopted his present name when people began to confuse Ben K. Benny with a fiddler named Ben Bernie. During the '20s Benny went onward & upward without much fuss or muss. He drifted into radio...