Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reopened the wound by rehearsing the incident under the punning headline // n'y avait pas la de quoi fouetter un Shah. This was a parody of the French phrase "There was nothing there with which to beat a cat," suggesting that the King of Kings had made a fuss about nothing. The poor pun was enough to make Reza Shah Pahlavi last week recall to Teheran his Minister to France. Mirza Abolghas-sem Nadjm "for an explanation," and withdraw his promise to lend Iranian art objects to the coming Paris International Exhibition which opens...
...Biggest fuss last week in the commodity markets which the bounding indices reflect was in copper. Metal prices at home and abroad have been rising dramatically since early autumn. Fortnight ago copper's sister non-ferrous metal, tin, was placed on virtually a 1929 production basis by the tin cartel (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week, with export copper selling as high as 12.75? per lb., the international copper cartel called off production quotas to keep the price of the red metal from soaring higher and to discourage reopening of low-grade mines...
Blindness handicapped her last years but she bore this affliction, not with pity-seeking sorrow nor with despairing indignation, but rather with a calm and philosophical acceptance. She accepted reality bravely. "I dislike making a fuss," she often asserted...
...adjusted himself to it more readily than anyone else. He romped with the children, teased the pretty, high-spirited 14-year-old Betsy Balcolme, a St. Helena heiress who played tricks on him, pulled his hair, once almost killed him with one of her pranks. Making a great fuss over his rights, Napoleon outsmarted his jailers almost from habit, played on the sympathies of Europe, started such rumors that presently a large body of troops and a good-sized fleet were assembled to prevent an escape that was literally impossible. Napoleon would hide from his guards, dress his servant...
...Follette and the heirs of Olson are allies of the New Deal.* In each of the other 37 States a Democrat sits in the Governor's chair. By no means, however, does the presence of a Democrat in a State capitol mean that the State will fall without fuss into the New Deal's lap Nov. 3. In half a dozen politically confused States like Ohio, Colorado, Nebraska, Democratic Governors are no assets to Franklin Roosevelt, either because he has learned to do without them or they have learned to do without him. This disadvantage is offset...