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Word: fusses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paderewski, TIME, Feb. 27, p. 47. "A recent indication of modern decadence, in Paderewski's eyes, was the fuss-&-feathers about Sir James Jeans's statement that there is no such thing as 'touch' in piano playing - that a pianist will get the same tone whether he hits the key with his finger or the end of an umbrella. Says umbrella-thatched Paderewski: 'Art is a question of personality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...ensure her Danish divorce going through next year without further fuss, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow finally agreed in Great Britain's High Court of Justice to give her husband, Count Court, "custody, care and superintendence" of their 2½year-old son, Lance until he is 21. Countess Babs will entertain her son on periodic visits. The rest of the time, she will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...real enthusiasms are all for the events and customs of the plush-upholstered '80s and '90s, for the theatre of Sarah Bernhardt, the court life of Victorian England, the restaurants of old New York. A recent indication of modern decadence, in Paderewski's eyes, was the fuss-&-feathers about Sir James Jeans's statement that there is no such thing as "touch" in piano playing - that a pianist will get the same tone whether he hits the key with his finger or the end of an umbrella. Says umbrella-thatched Paderewski: "Art is a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Veteran | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...cuts the time in half; I've clocked it," Dunn said. After finishing his reading and dictating, Dunn trots the scored cylinders down to the typing service, has legible notes made in his own words without the time-consuming fuss of scrawling them himself, and deciphering them later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR USES DICTAPHONE TO SAVE TIME AND MARKS | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

...Gropius and embodying Old Bauhaus principles. Last autumn the Association refused to reopen the school because of "lack of funds," then changed its tune to a violent but vague splutter about Moholy-Nagy's "Hitlerism" (TIME, Oct. 24). All that appeared to be at the bottom of this fuss was Moholy-Nagy's earnest and methodical teaching discipline; nine out of 13 New Bauhaus teachers stoutly stood by him and Bauhaus believers were shocked at the shutdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Historic A B Cs | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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