Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mrs. Denton was told she could not believe it. Said she, "It's the first time James has ever been in any kind of fuss...
...successor one of their own number, Alumnus James Phinney Baxter III ('14). A great friend "of Tyler Dennett, who he recommended to Williams' trustees three years ago as earnestly as Tyler Dennett was recommending him. Trustee Baxter was salmon-fishing in his native Maine during the entire fuss. Plainspoken. loyal Friend Baxter immediately announced that in educational matters he and Tyler Dennett...
Reason for all this fuss, aside from California's surpassing exuberance, was that the bridge was the world's greatest by practically every measurement-length of span, height, difficulty of achievement. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was conceived 20 years ago by Engineer Joseph Baermann ("Colossus of Roads'') Strauss and finally completed at a cost of eleven lives...
...most Basques are Catholic. In the U. S. last week, a different Catholic reaction met the O'Day-Woolley-Shotwell project. The U. S. hierarchy and Catholic press have had trouble enough explaining away the alliance between the Catholic Basques and the Godless "Reds" of Madrid. Making a fuss over 500 young Basques in the U. S. would, said U. S. Catholics, curry favor for the Leftist (Godless) cause in Spain. The secretary of the Massachusetts State Council of Knights of Columbus wrote to President Roosevelt...
...property, and counted on $400,000 more, which Dr. Machen's church had tried to take with it when it split off from the parent body. And to Dr. Foulkes, 59, big, well-beloved leader of youth, writer of hymns and Presbyterian mission board member, there went without fuss the office-moderator-ship of the General Assembly-which year after year is handed around among members of the inner circle which runs the Presbyterian Church from...