Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juliana took it calmly. Fortnight before the baby was born she telephoned a friend in London: "Why everybody is making such a fuss as to whether I'm going to have a boy or not, I can't understand. I don't care myself. I'm going to have a dozen children, and sooner or later I'll have...
...this howl about a closed shop represents so much bunk," he emphasized. The A.F. of L. chief, who lives only three blocks from the Freshman Union, believed it amusing that so many important officers here raised such a fuss over exclusive bargaining rights...
...Photo-Facts considered useful such stories as "White Man Westward" (Lewis & Clark), "Termite Menace," "Poe's Great Balloon Hoax," "Football From Pagan Rites." Added fillip was its "Newsstand University" section in which Dale Carnegie again bobbed up, this time with "Putting Yourself Across": typical Carnegie tip: "Do not fuss with your necktie or clothes-be always neatly dressed and let your hands hang at your sides." Professor Harold F. Clark of Columbia and Dr. Carl Norcross concluded Photo-Facts with a curbstone lesson in popular economics, "Easy Money for Everyone." A precept: ". . . Instead of cursing the other fellow...
Sitting on the bench in the stuffy courtroom last week was Judge Patrick Thomas Stone, 48, regular presiding justice for the district. Appointed by President Roosevelt in 1933, he is softspoken, dignified, erect, has a reputation for scrupulous fairness. That he would tolerate no undue fuss and delay became apparent when he succeeded in getting a jury chosen on the first day, instead of allowing the week that had been estimated would be necessary. His sternness was also apparent in the first skirmish of the trial, when Prosecutor Hammond Edward Chaffetz, 30, who has been with the Department of Justice...
...Then, suddenly it disappeared. Sportsmanlike Mr. Feigenspan, however, announced that angler Speck would get the $100 if no smaller tuna were caught before Oct. 31. Last week the Feigenspan employe in charge of contest entries returned from his vacation, a trifle surprised at all the fuss. Before he left, he said, he had cached the Speck tuna in the Feigenspan ice plant. Forthwith, he produced the smallest tuna, frozen into a 300 lb. block of ice. However, the whole situation was altered few days later when Francis J. Lupton caught a 24-ouncer off Beach Haven...