Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, a Mexican ball club lured Gibson away from the Grays. The Grays threatened to drag him to court if he did not return. Cum Posey finally appealed to Sumner Welles. ". . . However," moaned the Pittsburgh Courier, "when the big fuss started, this Government launched a gigantic 'good will' program in Latin America. ... It's doubtful that Mr. Welles or anyone else in the Government will become involved in the situation now, because we aren't going to do anything in Mexico but spread good will...
Recently in a San Antonio bus I saw a Negro girl of about 18 ejected from the one remaining empty seat in the crowded vehicle, a seat next to a white woman. And ... it wasn't the white woman who raised the fuss but a soldier of the U.S. Army, sitting across the aisle! He threatened to report the bus driver to transit company officials if the girl wasn't made to move. There was no place to move to, so she had to stand next to the empty seat the remainder of her 30-minute ride...
...nostalgic floor shows about the Gay Nineties and the Naughty Naughts. Last week Rose said good-by to all that, leaped into the future. "Come to New York," large ads advised Washington's brain-trusters, "and see our Post-War Preview, which concerns itself not with the fuss, but with the fun of the future. We have some important figures to submit. We'd like to show you a world with not too much milk, perhaps, but overflowing with honeys...
Professor Tatum with no fuss...
...Country. The opera 'was a flop, but Traubel stayed on in Manhattan, cooking her own meals, mending her own clothes, plugging away patiently at her vocal studies. Two years later she managed to scrape up the cash for a Town Hall debut and critics made such a fuss that the Metropolitan added her to its permanent staff...