Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weaker moment Bisbee became involved in an unfortunate affair with a girl named Rose. Stricken with a guilty conscience, he wrote to the "Friend in Need" column of Laura Brown in street and Smith's "Love Story Magazine," protesting the great fuss made by Rose. He received an uncompromising reply to the effect that "If you've any honor, and a sense of fairness, you certainly ought to marry that poor child Rose. You expect to dance and not pay the piper." Bisbee was disgusted he never even mentioned dancing...
Tall, handsome, dandyish David Graham Phillips was a man of mark in the days of four-inch collars and wicked "Interests." Even then his collars were higher, his crusading zeal hotter than most. Many a reader remembers well the fuss & fury roused by his expose of Senators DePew, Aldrich, Knox, Foraker, Platt et al. in a Cosmopolitan magazine series called "The Treason of the Senate." President Roosevelt, irked by this intrusion on what he considered his private hunting ground, first used his pet word "muckraker" in veiled denunciation of the author...
...Nobody notices human suffering in all this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face...
...Without fuss & feathers, a lean, wiry figure walked into the White House last week, hung his hat up on a peg to which it was accustomed and went quietly to work in the office next to President Hoover's. It was Edward T. ("Ted") Clark, longtime confidential secretary to Calvin Coolidge. Unannounced, Theodore ("Ted") Joslin, the President's No. 1 secretary, had departed overnight for an indefinite vacation and Ted Clark had been called in to substitute. President Hoover could hardly have gotten a better man to help him through the ardors of the campaign...
...made sufficiently high the spirit of adventure will not prevail against it." With no pretense at being a philosopher, he can be as effectively philosophical as Schopenhauer: "Christ who called us sons of God, and Swift who called us little odious vermin, are both making a quite unnecessary fuss about almost nothing...