Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forgotten language came back with a rush. In Trieste a Slovene official bade him a ceremonious welcome home, showed him newspapers bursting with his praises. In Jugoslavia, especially in his little native province of Carniola, Adamic was almost a national hero. Puzzled at first, he sensibly decided the fuss-&-feathers was due partly to Slovene patriotism, partly to the fact that he was a writer...
...have to disagree with the Vice President again," said Mr. Gaxton. "Why fuss about making Yale co-ed? I gathered from articles in the papers a couple of years ago that they were already headed that way. They've been doing all right so far. Let 'em alone and they'll be completely co-ed in no time. And you might suggest that they move their huddles out on the football field, that always helps...
Many were the Pre-Raphaelitish extracurricular activities. They published a short-lived magazine, Germ. They were charter readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property...
...with them to Munich. There they get into a Nazi shooting scrape and are befriended by a doctor who is also a famed airman and the inventor of a mystery plane. He invites them to accompany him on his trial flight to an unknown destination. Amid much municipal fuss they take off at dusk, fly all night in an ecstatic frame of mind. Carlotta and the Irishman are convinced they are flying to heaven. Next morning they land on a rainy field which the Irishman recognizes only too well as his bedraggled native land. At first inclined to curse...
...whole fuss was made particularly acrimonious because it involved those traditional enemies the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Daily News, thus: Last year Clifford Henderson, longtime air-race promoter, went on the road to place the 1933 meet. Cleveland, which had a five-year option on the races and which took a loss last year, was anxious to sublet this year's meet to another city. Privately the Cleveland committee wanted Promoter Henderson to take the show to the Pacific Coast for two reasons: 1) California wanted it. 2) The farther from Cleveland in 1933, the stronger the comeback...