Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greetings, and don't miss the point of this fuss...
...businessmen "anti-Administration," U. S. railroads burdened with 90,000 miles of track which ought to be torn up. Said Railroader Loree, who thinks all passenger traffic a nuisance: "I do not feel discouraged about the railroad business. . . . The short-haul business has never paid us. Why should we fuss about...
...Chased by one mob after another while terribly wounded, he developed his lifelong fear of lynching, surrendered to the authorities, who let him escape. Cutting his way out of jail in broad daylight, he wrote that the guards told him when to work, "as the saw made a big fuss." Free, he plunged into the Sutton-Taylor feud, killed Sheriff Jack Helms, enjoyed a period of relative peace and prosperity until he killed Deputy Sheriff Charlie Webb, whose friends, resenting it, lynched Hardin's brother, two cousins, and a friend. Escaping to Florida, Hardin was captured by a Texas...
...child may make a fuss about eating because he is actually sick, finds this a good way of bullying his family, or is overstuffed. To break the habit, says Dr. Kanner: "Simply put the food before the child at the regular meal time (and always in the same place) and then withdraw. After 30 minutes the dishes should be removed without the slightest comment. No nourishment of any kind should be given between meals. There is no danger if the child misses one meal or even several meals...
...station. He reached his hotel with a motorcycle police escort. Four days later the executive committee upheld Judge Bramham's ruling. Albany executives planned to refer the case to baseball's Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Said Alabama Pitts: "You know it's funny, all this fuss being made about me, when they don't really know whether I can play ball...