Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college and public hysteria will find another outlet. The steady growth of a more mature intelligence throughout the student bodies of the various schools of any intellectual and cultural importance will eventually accomplish all that the most hysterical. Viewer with Alarm could wish for, and with less fuss and attendant by-products of ennui...
...Bruce Dunton, l.t. r.t., Jackson, Whittemore Futcher, l.g. r.g., Silin McCabe, c. c., Greenberg Gorman, Sapienza, r.g. l.g., Hunter Knowles, r.t. l.t., Morgan Gustafson, Taylor, r.e. l.e., White Wightman, q.b. q.b., Cohen Ripley, l.h.b. r.h.b., McJennett Downes, Swarts, r.h.b. l.h.b., Campana Clapp, f.b. f.b., Stein, Bates, Fuss...
...chairman of the Republican National Committee, fuss-budgety little Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio went through last year's Congressional campaign assuring voters that the Depression was worldwide, that President Hoover was not to blame. Many a voter did not believe him, helped to reduce to paper-thinness the Republican majority in Congress. Since then Mr. Fess has had little to say about economic conditions...
Once before, in 1929, Photographer Hillig tried to go home in a blaze of glory and bought passage on the Graf Zeppelin. But somebody blundered and at the last moment Mr. Hillig found himself left out. He made quite a fuss about it, sought a writ to prevent the Graf from sailing with- out him, finally sued for $100,000. The case was settled out of court, and no announcement made. But Mr. Hillig allowed his friends to believe that he collected $25,000, a sum which he later spent in having the Bellanca built. A different story is told...
Unfortunately the result was not all that the good Father had hoped. Newspapers made a great but skeptical fuss. Protestants openly disbelieved; agnostics thought there was a trick in it; the Roman Catholic Church was more or less embarrassed. Finally Father Malachy, persuaded by an anxious colleague to clinch the matter by performing another miracle, prayed that the dance hall should be returned to its original location. It was done; and in 48 hours the public had forgotten it had ever moved...