Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discriminating intellectual interest in the music itself. Of course, these public demands are answered by corresponding types of musical supply. For instance, the concert of the Oslo University Chorus on Saturday evening catered frankly, and rather pleasantly, to the love which everyone has for ear-tickling vocalism without much fuss about the selection of the music itself. The demands of the opposite type are a little harder to satisfy, especially in the case of a professional musician who, though he may favor more discrimination and enterprise in the selection of his concert lists, is forced to conform to the taste...
...through the halls of the Palazzo Littorio, Fascist headquarters in Rome, in an ugly mood. He called in the Party's trained mob-prompters and furiously dressed them down for an event which might have passed unnoticed by the outside world had Signor Starace not made such a fuss...
...South, from New Orleans to Miami and from Raleigh to Memphis, appeared solidly disgusted with Hitler & Mussolini. But they were Britain's and France's headaches, not the South's. Also evident was annoyance at Jews for having helped precipitate so much fuss & bother...
...With no fuss or feathers, Pan American Airways sent one of its new 74-passenger Boeing Clippers across to England last week. Captained by big, blond Harold Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain...
...close his eyes, to determine if he was drunk, was then locked in a verminous cell while officers examined "love letters from a dozen women" found in his pocket, and his Colt revolver. Officers said there was nothing to it-that they wondered why he made such a fuss, suspected he wanted something to write about, collected $10, took him to the city limits, sent...