Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayors from all over the country righteously denounced the LaGuardia attitude. Across the country (where the curfew was being observed without much fuss), editorial writers and cartoonists wound up and chucked their bluntest barbs at New York City's mayor...
Paulina Karpovskaya Zhemchuzhina, wife of Russian Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, acted as a judge at a Moscow fashion show. The no-fuss-&-feathers prizewinners were designs suitable for mass production...
...District of Columbia, Fred Vinson is still best remembered for his hard, intelligent work on tax bills in the House. As Jimmy Byrnes's successor in OES, he has worked mightily to hold the line against inflation. An easygoing man with a quiet disdain of officious fuss-&-feathers, he was sure to be confirmed by the Senate: he is the archtype of the middle-of-the-road, politically wise New Dealer...
...weary B17. Before returning to duty, he had asked an A.T.C. friend to fly Blaze out to his wife, Cinemactress Faye Emerson, in Hollywood, if an empty plane happened to be going that way. That was all he knew about it. Was there a fuss...
...Last Step. A few months ago, a third citizen group did. With a minimum of fuss, it turned up with $14,421,000 and bought control of Nebraska Power. This group will hold control only until the property can be transferred to Omaha or a public-power district. Omaha wondered: "Where'd they get the money...