Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After all the fuss & feathers in and over WPB, one fact seemed finally to be dawning on its men: WPB was in no position to risk a showdown within its own organization or with the armed services-nor could it take sole responsibility for running...
...stand aside for a male lieutenant, and the senior male officer is acting in a perfectly proper manner if he assumes the privileges of his rank. But if the lieutenant indicates he wishes the ensign to go ahead first, the she is supposed to go without any fuss or feathers...
...first notable victory over the rationing problem was scored this week: the Office of Price Administration put shoes on a coupon basis (three pairs-or less-a year*) with a minimum of fuss. For the first time, OPA drew up the order in secret, mailed out instructions to local boards on Saturday night, announced the rationing on Sunday afternoon-effective at once. In Manhattan, gossipy Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia let the secret out prematurely and helped start a run on East Side stores, which remain open Sundays. Elsewhere U.S. citizens were given neither urge nor time for frantic hoarding. Only confusion...
...Tokyo made a prodigious fuss about the captivity, trial and punishment of U.S. flyers who fell into Japanese hands after the bombing of Tpkyo. With the caution accorded only to vital international questions, Secretary Stimson and the U.S. State Department left the question of retaliation for future settlement. ^ Ottawa reacted with equal sensitivity to news about the handling of German prisoners in Canada...
...America particularly, the public appetite for good new music increased, as did opportunities for getting in performed. Orchestras, audiences, honors (witness the fuss made over Shostakovitch's "conversion" in '37), everything awaited the arrival of the great man, but he never came. The public wanted music in the grand style, forgetting that great music is the offspring of a certain quality of life that the times could not produce...