Word: pother
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sure to see the newsreel of the homework pother in British schools. Parliament disapproves of it, and one bright little boy suggests that there ought to be more time for football...
...light of the mid-day sun?" (Republican cheers, Democratic jeers.) Leader Snell, his duty done, sat down. A resolution to reconvene was then unanimously agreed to, and after sitting 67 min. the House recessed. The Senate sat for only 20 min. There was no broadcasting, no photography, no pother about recessing until time for the President's speech. Republican Senator Borah, 70, expressed his "congratulations and esteem" on the eve of Democratic Senator Glass's 78th birthday (see p. 47). Members felicitated dressy old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois on his narrow escape from death from pneumonia...
...often newspapers get steamed up about some mysterious new ray which will deal long-range death to men and animals, down airplanes or work other wholesale damage. Lately a ray said to stop gasoline engines and supposedly invented by no less a personage than Guglielmo Marconi stirred up a pother, which faded away when Marconi himself squelched it. Last week another exciting ray story cropped up in dispatches from Berkeley, Calif, which produced such headlines as NEW LETHAL RAY HURLED BY MAGNET, and NEW DEATH RAY TO AID MANKIND BEGINS ITS TEST...
...against the British and at all costs the Moroccans must not rise against the French. In these circumstances, French Premier Pierre Laval indicated last week: that Morocco must and will be given the greatest latitude in nonobservance of sanctions consistent with French "devotion to the League." All this Paris pother about Morocco and its 24-year-old puppet Sultan was of course M. Laval's high-sign last week to Italians that he is still secretly working his hardest to obtain the "free hand in Ethiopia'' he promised Benito Mussolini at the time of the Franco-Italian...
...know anything about it," snapped President Walter B. Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey, arriving in Manhattan from London, where he had remained at the Ritz Hotel during the whole pother. Still 100% mum. Tycoon Teagle debarked in Manhattan last week, while London papers still rumored that he hired Mr. Rickett in the first place and ordered the promoter's fat fee paid last week regardless of future developments...