Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Active command of the world's liveliest newspaper chain changed hands this week with a characteristic minimum of fuss & feathers. Robert Paine Scripps, controlling stockholder of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, announced that William Waller Hawkins was succeeding Roy Wilson Howard as board chairman. For Mr. Hawkins the shift was not only a hard-earned promotion but the fulfillment of a precedent which has become part of U. S. journalistic tradition. For 30 years, as Bill Hawkins and Roy Howard have climbed the publishing ladder, Big Bill has repeatedly helped boost his little friend up a rung, then succeeded...
...dormitory window. In 1912, when the first 2-ft. bronze Collier Trophy was awarded to Glenn H. Curtiss for hydro-airplane development, young Designer Douglas became bolder, launched his latest model from the roof. Gliding perfectly earthward, it landed on an admiral's head. The resultant fuss so exasperated Douglas that he quit the Naval Academy, went to M.I.T. Two years later, as the third Collier Trophy went to Orville Wright for his automatic stabilizer, Designer Douglas graduated, began to build his first real airplane at the plant of Aircrafter Glenn L. Martin. This week, 44-year-old Designer...
...this fuss over a chauffeur's death last week revealed the peculiar organization of the present German Government. Perpetually standing between Adolf Hitler and the lusty, quarreling Nazi cliques are a group of bachelor bodyguards. Their chief is Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Bruckner, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, who sleeps outside Hitler's door. When Hitler drove out in his huge Mercedes-Benz, the man at the wheel was usually Julius Schreck, muscular, slit-eyed sub-commander of the Schutzstaffel, who wore an imitation Hitler mustache. Substitute chauffeur was Erich Kempka, 25, Schutzstaffel captain. Since even Prussian Premier Goring...
...question of silicosis last week caused a wrangle in San Francisco, where doctors, lawyers, miners, mineowners, insurance men, legislators, public health agents and fuss-budgets met to argue the pros & cons of a disease which has lately taken the public spotlight as the subject of bitter industrial controversy...
Just then a loud yawn was heard coming from the top of the four poster: "What's all the fuss about?" asked the Dormouse in a hoarse, feeble voice and slowly opening its eyes. But before anyone could answer: "Oh, no, I, I wasn't sleeping. I heard every word you fellows were saying. And you're making too much fuss about the Oath Bill anyway...