Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, people were putting oil burners in their basements. Oil burners, compared to the ordinary coal furnace then in use, could be run almost as cheaply, more efficiently, with considerably less fuss. Grateful coalmen reflect that without Iron Fireman their entire market might have been lost to oil. Few Iron Fireman stokers were put into new homes but they were attached to old coal furnaces for less than $500 in 1926, $275 now. They conveyed the coal mechanically from the coal bin to the furnace, and because they fed it in beneath the fire instead of dumping...
...that if it isn't a sign of divine irritation over the condition of world politics, then it must be a renewed heavenly assault upon man's original sin. Every one attaches some superstition to the phenomenon, and no one, as far as can be observed, makes a practical fuss over America's flood wave...
...London's tiny Mayor Gallery, fortnight ago, there opened an exhibition of paintings by a shaggy-haired, beer-loving Englishman who immediately, without fuss or feathers, assumed significance in modern art. He was 37-year-old William Hayter, a onetime teacher of engraving in Paris. His distinction: that of being the first Surrealist painter of the Paris school to visit the fighting zone in Spain. Much has been written by Andre Breton and other Surrealists on their profound affinity with the antiFascists. So far as is known, William Hayter beat them all to Madrid...
When Romance in the Dark was in the making, considerable fuss was made over a sequence in which Singer Swarthout was pelted with tomatoes by an opera audience. Previewers greeted the scene with no enthusiasm, and it was cut out. Now the only tomato thrown squishes over the Latin features of Tenor Fortunio Bona-Nava...
...they're not slighted at Harvard. "Why all the fuss then?" is the question that might be asked. It's just that when a group of athletes combined together in unshakable unity, a team in other words, are achieving great things, its good to let the public know that the unit is responsible for success, not only the individual stars...