Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This season, grand opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan opened with a slightly fussier fuss than usual. Last week, however, the Met got in the groove-a few new voices and a new red carpet, but the same old scenery, same old gilded box holders, and opera's perennial bright angel, NBC, occupying Grand Tier Box 44 for the Saturday matinee, Boris Godunoff...
...sales rose from $10,229,000 in 1934 to an estimated $20,000,000 this year, its net income from a 1935 deficit of $275,000 to an anticipated 1939 profit of $1,000,000. Still, minority stockholders were not satisfied. Once they set up a fuss at their annual meeting at the firm's Chicopee Falls, Mass, plant over the $12,000 annual fee directors had voted their chairman. Next year the directors retaliated by holding the stockholders' meeting in Delaware. Last week, however, it looked as if the controversy would soon be ended...
...cuffs, figured that Mr. Morgenthau's services to the Government would thus terminate in about nine months-unless Congress saw fit to move its chair back to higher ground. That move is just what the next session of Congress is expected to make, with only a modicum of fuss-but the Republican fuss can be counted on to be more than a modicum...
...band of men who grew up in Kansas City and have played together for about ten years; and that Bob Crosby, admitted to be the best of the Dixieland type jazz, has a band made up in large part of men who hail from New Orleans, where all this fuss called jazz really got started...
...Lieutenant, and after him a Captain, a Major and a Colonel all came up to see what the fuss was about. Sam was adamant. " 'E knocked it down. Reckon 'e picks it oop or it stays where it is-at me feet...