Word: fusspot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Alexander Kerensky proposed a measure to abolish the death penalty in Russia, Czar Nicholas II was opposed to the notion. What would become of discipline in the army, he wanted to know? Kerensky, who was a bit of a fusspot but a far more decent man than any of the Bolsheviks who replaced him, tried gently to explain to the last of the Romanovs that the law he proposed was designed to preserve the Czar's own life...
...that Matthau always gets his way One of his ideas is to exchange roles, play the part of the puttering fusspot husband "because it would more of a challenge," and let Carney roar throuah the role of Oscar. But with a hit it might be dangerous to switch...
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