Word: pother
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...rivalry of Oxford and Cambridge in sport therefore is a thing apart, a matter between themselves, something to be settled by 'young 'varsity gentlemen' without the pother and popular clamor which are the inevitable concomitants of intercollegiate contests in the United States...
...character, Panos and Euterpe went to see again the play that had brought them together. It had special meaning for them. Hippolytus is the tale of a man too good for his own good. Intent on his pursuits, impervious to the demonic, he will not notice the gods' dreadful pother being made above his head. The play deals with a recurrent flaw in the Greek ideal. Martha Nussbaum, in her profound study of ancient Greek ethical standards, The Fragility of Goodness, argues that self-sufficiency was a standard for the city that individuals tried to appropriate for themselves, with tragic...
...epistolary pother had its genesis on June 13, when Watt and Arens sat together at a Washington banquet. Four days later, Watt reiterated his dinner-table chatter by mail...
...address a question that increasingly concerns physicians: How to deal with the hopeless case? Realistically, replies Poe, "Medicine should not use silly euphemisms such as rehabilitation and convalescence for its losing patients. A marantology service could be a place where a person could die in dignity without all the pother death engenders elsewhere...
...late Justice Curtis Bok of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was famed for the wit and sense of his legal writing; he remarked once, while discussing the unnecessary pother raised by bluenoses about sex in literature, that if a man were in the mood to be sensual, he would be aroused by reading the Mechanics' Lien Acts. Justice Bok was also a novelist and a sailor. In the best sense of the rapidly blurring word amateur (one who does something, perhaps very well, solely for his own pleasure), the judge wrote two well-received novels about courtroom life and made...