Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earl Carroll's Sketch Book, with no more Broadway openings promised until August, officially rings out the 1934-35 theatre season with lots of fuss, little fun. This year's Carrolling is supposed to represent in 50 scenes a U. S. chorine's idea of her nation's past. The doll-voices of a bevy of "the most beautiful girls in the world" inaugurate this motif by squealing in unison...
...gets the raise and marries the girl is scarcely a new idea in movie plots, but Mr. Horton's flair for the querulous, and his well known vacillation and fuss-budgetry make it seem very amusing in a mild sort...
Aside from the fact that the routine succession of publisher's title called for no fuss & fury in the Times offices. Arthur Hays Sulzberger would be the last man to kick up a fuss. He did not even move into his father-in-law's vacant chair at council table, but retained his customary seat beside Editor Rollo Ogden. There, every noon, publisher, editors and managers meet for the day's mulling of policy. Afterward the biggest wigs adjourn to the dining room upstairs, usually with a guest who may be a Cabinet officer, Brain Truster, diplomat...
...candid: "There is only one book worth writing-not to cheat, but to record every item in the tale of mistakes, joys. cruelties, and simple meannesses that make up our dealings one with others, then to write down the total, hand it in. and clear off without making a fuss...
Last week Artist Anderson was in Manhattan, bewildered by the fuss made over him, wrestling with the job of making Henry act funny seven days a week. One thing eased that task: Though Henry remains for the most part as mute as ever, his companions in the newspaper strip may talk...