Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mellow ("My man don't love me, he shakes me awful mean"), and did just dandy by the blues. And, for the balance of CBS's one-hour The Sound of Jazz, the art got what it has so long deserved: a TV showcase uncluttered by the fuss and furbelows that burden most musical telecasts. In the murky, smoke-choked studio, more than two dozen of the best jazz vocalists and sidemen worked through eight of the best jazz numbers with the kind of love, wonder, almost mystical absorption they usually summon up in the most free-wheeling...
...Ossining, N.Y., ten Protestants and Jews brought suit against the board of education for using "a tax-established and tax-supported public school system to aid religious groups to propagate their faith." Cause of the fuss: the board had approved the request of a citizens' committee, headed by Episcopal Mayor Jesse Collyer Jr., that a crèche be built on the lawn of the high school during the Christmas season...
...Their presence would "depress property values." Last week, after San Francisco's Council for Civic Unity and Mayor George Christopher denounced the Sherwood Foresters for trying to yank the city's welcome mat out from under Willie, Mays got his house. More bewildered than affronted by the fuss, Mays smiled and said, "Wonderful...
...student body on this matter was quite opposed to the administrations'. Students felt that the death was just an unfortunate accident. One student said, "That was just a tough break. Weekends like that are happening all the time up here. There's not much need for all the fuss...
...Backdoor. Richard King became a boatman by chance: he made his exit from New York by stowing away on a Gulf-bound sailing ship, and the captain taught the youngster his trade. During the rugged days on the Southwest border, after Old Fuss-and-Feathers Scott and Old Rough-and-Ready Taylor shoved Mexico back across the Rio Grande, Captain King and his partner, Mifflin Kenedy, made themselves a big stake by transporting cargo upriver by boat as far as skilled captains and sound bottoms could navigate. In 1852 King made an overland trip from Brownsville to Corpus Christi...