Word: fusses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hall, was his blues-singing wife, Frances Langford. The publicity was wonderful. Next day it was not so wonderful. Pressed for details, Hall finally confessed that neither he nor his wife had been in the plane at the time. Said he: "I wish this would be forgotten. Too much fuss has been made...
...Ottawans, who like the free & easy manner of their own bigwigs, all this seemed like unnecessary fuss & feathers. Said the Ottawa Journal: "This is the American way.. . . The fact is that President Truman could walk alone in any Ottawa street ... in as complete safety as he enjoyed when he was a haberdasher in a small Midwest town.* He might be asked for his autograph, but that would...
With the artistic freedom they had gained, Capra, Wyler and Stevens had also acquired the worries of businessmen. Wyler sighed: "I have no talent for business. I don't like it. What I want to do is direct pictures. But now I have to fuss with lawyers, make decisions about distribution, be a salesman and so on. I just don't know...
Unsmiling and unexcited, she walked rapidly from tee to green, hitting the ball with care, but without fuss. Determined to make her the world's best, her father, a former golf-course owner, had started her golfing at four. Usually Marlene considers golf fun, but a few weeks ago she had balked at practicing. Father, putting on an act of what he called "wrathful psychology," broke her niblick over his knee. She cried, repented, and went back to her practicing, thereupon won the Palm Springs Invitational Tournament (with play that included a par 70). Marlene's ambition...
...With no fuss, the Russian stepped up to a youngish man with a briefcase under his arm and a dirty brown felt hat pulled over his ears, and commanded: "Eeh, Du! Komm!" The German froze, casting a terrified glance over his shoulder at the frightened stream of men & women who were trying not to see or hear. The Russian waved his Tommy gun and curled his lip. "Komm!" He pushed his petrified recruit roughly into the gutter...