Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...logical comment on the Delegates v. Press fuss was made by the New York Times which observed that Scot MacDonald, for all his talk of propaganda, really wanted the newsmen to write his own brand of propaganda, viz. that the Conference was doing great things. Said the Times...
...General" Balbo had done his job of political repression too well. In Ferrara. a priest had died of a beating. Balbo had to stand trial. Nothing was proved. He was acquitted, and II Duce commended him for behaving "like a Fascist and a gentleman." But there was so much fuss that Mussolini removed Balbo from the militia, let him cool off for a year or so. As Undersecretary of National Economy, he was a complete misfit. Finally Mussolini hit upon a plan for diverting into a useful channel his disciple's hot-bloodedness, ambition and ability as an organizer...
...Author, a rangy, 39-year-old Pomeranian farmer, may well be surprised at the fuss he has stirred up. So would his neighbors be if they knew that Farmer Dietzen (his real name) was "Hans Fallada." A lawyer's son, Author Dietzen spent an awkward and unhappy childhood in Berlin and Leipzig but has never felt easy in urban surroundings. Failure as a farm executive, clerk, bookkeeper, estate agent, provision-dealer, potato grower, he failed also with his first two books. Then he married, settled down in Holstein, then Berlin, with his wife and child, and made enough money...
...Doll fuss & Adolf...
...farce of the German elections is over, and Handsome Adolf is still doing business at the same stand, smiling benevolently at the bourgeoisie who have handed him his carte blanche with so little fuss. Strangely enough the French seem quite surprised at the outcome. This attitude is certainly naive, for despite all their pious and doubtless sincere God-forbids, they have been instrumental in putting Comrade Hitler in his seat of power...